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· 6/20/2005

United States v. Augustus Quintrell Light

Citations

  • 406 F.3d 995

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding evidence was sufficient where police \recovered a gun from the alley\ where defendant was apprehended even though no one saw him drop it or \kept an eye on the spot where the gun was found\
  • holding evidence was sufficient where police “recovered a gun from the alley” where defendant was apprehended even though no one saw him drop it or “kept an eye on the spot where the gun was found”
  • finding sufficient evidence under similar facts where no usable prints were found on the gun after it was recovered
  • finding equivocal assertion when the defendant “only asked the district court for information about ‘the rule’ on self-representation and manifested no intention to actually represent himself”
  • relying on circumstantial evidence to show the defendant knowingly possessed the firearm
  • district court's statement that \my discretion is limited to that 235 to 295\ insufficient to demonstrate reasonable probability of a lesser sentence

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Judges: Bye, Hansen, Gruender

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