United States v. Dunigan

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• concluding that the enhancement applies where the threat to the victim is “specific rather than general”
• pointing weapon at specific individuals qualifies as “otherwise used” under Sentencing Guideline § 2A4.1 cmt. n.2
• “By pointing the gun at [the victim’s] face, as opposed to merely displaying it for intimidation purposes, [defendant] ‘otherwise used’ the gun rather than ‘brandished’ it.”
• “Testimony describing an investigation’s background should not be needlessly objected to on hearsay grounds where it goes only to how police investigated a crime rather than to the truth of the matter asserted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).