United States v. Danny Flores

How courts have described this case

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• holding that buyer-seller rule did not apply where the defendant “was not a street[-]level retail drug purchaser’ he was a wholesale seller who knowingly helped supply large quantities of methamphetamine to a distribution organization”
• rejecting claim of unduly suggestive array where “photographs were all of Hispanic males of roughly similar build, height, age, and hairstyles,” even though only defendant wore goatee
• rejecting claim of unduly suggestive array where “photographs were all of Hispanic males of roughly similar build, height, age, and hairstyles,” even though only defendant 47 wore goatee
• considering number of photographs and similarity of subjects' builds, heights, ages, and hairstyles
• noting, with respect to an enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possessing a dangerous weapon in connection with a drug crime, that “the weapon may simply serve as a potentially deadly means of protecting the trafficker’s goods”

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