United States v. Deandra Sue Warford, United States of America v. Phillip Whatley

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• holding that Booker does not render statutory minimum sentences unconstitutional
• “[T]here is an inherent indicia of reliability in the richness and detail of a first hand observation.” (alteration in original) (internal quotation omitted)
• “A defendant possesses a firearm ‘in connection with’ an offense if the evidence shows that the weapon ‘facilitated or had [the] potential to facilitate’ the drug offense.” (alteration in original)
• “In reviewing a district court’s denial of a motion to suppress, we may consider the applicability of the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule before reviewing the existence of probable cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).