United States v. Ramon Castro-Lara, United States of America v. Abraham Objio Sarraff

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• upholding a conviction under 924(c)(1) -26- when the gun was in a briefcase in a locked car trunk without specifying whether the conviction was under the statute's \use\ or \carry\ prong
• gun was “near a large sum of cash, in close proximity to live ammunition” while defendant was “taking delivery of a sizable quantity of cocaine”
• unloaded gun in locked automobile trunk was available for use during and in relation to drug trafficking crime
• unloaded gun in locked automobile trunk was available for use during and in relation to drug trafficking crime
• “If a statement is offered for its effect on the listener, in order to explain the listener’s conduct, it does not matter whether the declarant is telling the truth.”
• “The hearsay rule does not pertain to statements adduced merely to show that they had some effect on the future actions of a listener.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).