United States v. Clarence Jones

How courts have described this case

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• severing felon-in-possession count where its only possible purpose was to enable jury to learn that defendant had a felony record
• testimony from bank employees about a “silver gun with a white handle” sufficient to support a § 924(c) conviction
• eyewitness testimony is sufficient if it provides “a rational basis for the jury to find that the object observed by eyewitnesses was, in fact, a firearm”
• eyewitness testimony sufficient for government's burden of proof even if no firearm is recovered
• District Court improperly failed to bifurcate charge of possession of firearm from other charges
• firearm under § 921(a)(3) includes \any weapon . . . which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).