United States v. Frank Duran

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• rejecting sufficiency of the evidence challenge where gun was held in the conspiracy’s headquarters for protection
• finding no prejudice; an \abundance of evidence\ proved that specified gun was possessed in furtherance of drug-trafficking conspiracy as alleged in indictment
• rejecting sufficiency of the evidence challenge where gun was held in the conspiracy’s headquarters for protection
• setting out two elements of a § 846 conviction: “(1) two or more people agreed to commit an unlawful act, and (2) the defendant knowingly and intentionally joined in the agreement”
• “[Jjurors are entitled to consider that drug dealers possess guns for protection to further drug-trafficking offenses.”
• “[J]urors are entitled to consider that drug dealers possess guns for protection to further drug‐ trafficking offenses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).