United States v. Carlos Javier Lopez

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] typical dose of cocaine can be as little as one-fourth of a gram . . . .” (emphasis added) (citation omitted)
• severance to prevent prejudice may not be appropriate, if the charges in question are “extensively related”
• “Because Lopez’s drug crime was possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, evidence establishing the ready accessibility of the gun while he was in possession of a distributable amount of cocaine satisfied the ‘in furtherance’ requirement.”
• “Because Lopez’s drug crime was possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, evidence establishing the ready accessibility of the gun while he was in possession of a distributable amount of cocaine satisfied the ‘in furtherance’ requirement.”
• “The district court did not err, much less plainly err, by failing separately to define 16 UNITED STATES V. IRONS ‘in furtherance’ in its instruction to the jury on possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).