United States v. Jermaine Raynard Frederick

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• holding that trading drugs for a firearm violates the “in furtherance of” prong of the stat- ute
• concluding that witness testimony about the defendant’s crack and marijuana operation constituted background evidence to a felon-in-possession charge because the firearm was necessary for his protection
• “As a matter of logic, a defendant’s willingness to accept possession of a gun as consideration for some drugs he wishes to sell does promote or facilitate that illegal sale.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).