United States v. Richard F. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that to avoid enhance- ment, defendant must show connection between drug offense and dangerous weapon possession was “clearly improbable”
• holding that the “proximity of guns to illicit narcotics” can support application of the dangerous weapon enhancement
• noting that \emphasis on the elements [of the offenses] comports with the plain meaning of 'similar'\ for the purposes of section 4A1.2(c)
• stating that two offenses are \similar” when \their essential elements are nearly corresponding or resembling in many respects”
• holding “that the proximity of guns to illicit narcotics can support a district court’s enhancement of a defendant’s sentence under Section 2Dl.l(b)(l)”
• noting that “the proximity of guns to illicit narcotics can support a district court’s enhancement of a defendant’s sentence under Section 2Dl.l(b)(l)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).