United States v. Jesse Wright, Jr., A.K.A. Jessie Wright

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• holding that a defendant had constructive possession of a firearm that was in a car he owned and was driving
• holding that resisting arrest could show that the defendant realized officers would discover the firearm in a post-arrest search
• holding that it was “entirely proper for the court to make inquiries of a witness in order to clarify the evidence presented” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that an attempt to resist arrest “could indicate that [the defendant] only resisted after he realized officers would impound the car and discover the gun”
• concluding that evidence of defendant’s resistance to arrest and battery on a law enforcement officer before the discovery of the firearm giving rise to his felon-in-possession charge gave “the jury the body of the story, not just the ending”
• explaining that plain error review applies where “the argument advanced at trial” challenging an instruction is not the argument “advance[d] on appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).