United States v. Jimmy John Gutierrez

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that expert testimony of a police officer may \carr[y] an aura of special reliability and trustworthiness\ (quotations omitted)
• noting that \testimony that the defendant may have placed something in the spot where the police later found the weapon can support a finding of possession\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that “testimony that the defendant may have placed something in the spot where the police later found the weapon can support a finding of possession” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• district court did not abuse discretion in admitting officer’s testimony in court that defendant’s behavior was “furtive”
• district court did not abuse discretion in admitting officer's testimony in court that defendant's behavior was \furtive\
• “It would tax credulity to assert that Gutierrez was sitting on top of a pistol without knowing of its presence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).