United States v. Keith M. Freisinger

How courts have described this case

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• holding that rule of lenity applicable where congressional intent is ambiguous and one of two reasonable interpretations would result in a less punitive result
• concluding that revolvers located in a knotted pillowcase inside a large plastic bag were readily available to Freisinger
• concluding that revolvers located in a knotted pillowcase inside a large plastic bag were readily available to Freisinger
• refusing to apply 924(c)(1)(C)’s penalty enhancement where defendant was carrying more than one firearm during a single drug trafficking offense
• referring to comment that government witnesses “came here and told the truth”
• statute which prohibited carrying “a firearm” during the commission of a drug offense permits multiple counts for carrying multiple firearms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).