United States v. Ramon Jorge Laguardia and Marina Hidalgo Gato

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a firearm’s “presence and availability in light of the evident need” demonstrate “use”
• recognizing use of firearms to advance criminal drug activities
• “large sum of unexplained cash in connection with other evidence of drug trading is probative of the previous occurrence of drug transactions”
• “use” of weapons where they had “undoubted utility in the protection of the valuable [drug] supply and of the cash on hand”
• defendant was lessee of apartment where drugs were found, possessed weapons in her purse used by drug dealers, had $10,000 hidden among her clothes, and had cocaine hidden in her bedroom
• “The presence of equipment to weigh and measure cocaine may be viewed as evidence of intent to distribute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).