United States v. Billy Joe Cochran

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• holding that co-conspirator’s firearm possession was not reasonably foreseeable when gun was hidden from defendant’s view and there was no evidence that conspiracy involved violence or large quantities of drugs
• finding insufficient evidence where defendant was seen talking to his brother who had recently passed a counterfeit bill
• noting “[m]any district courts have noted that twenty to forty hours 15 is the range most often requested and granted in social security cases”
• requiring objective evidence that defendant passenger knew weapon found under driver's seat was present in car, or at least knew it was reasonably probable that co-conspirator driver would be armed
• using an objective test for the reasonable foreseeability of a co-conspirator’s conduct
• “ ‘[M]ere presence on the scene plus association with illegal possessors is not enough’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).