United States v. Carlos Cruz

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• holding that a conviction of possession of firearms in furtherance of a crime in which use of multiple firearms is alleged must be affirmed if the evidence is sufficient only as to one of the firearms
• defendants \had power and intention to retrieve the firearms if and when the upcoming drug transactions turned sour\
• defendants “had power and intention to retrieve the firearms if and when the upcoming drug transactions turned sour”
• “[T]he district court could have concluded that the prejudice caused by such testimony was not unfair; it was, instead, merely the negative result of the testimony’s probative value.”
• officer testified that defendant was seen at a known drug point
• testimony that defendant was carrying a gun established element of possession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).