United States v. Richard Wiener

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “substantial dealers in narcotics keep firearms on their premises as tools of the trade”
• emphasizing that gun, admitted as evidence of drug conspiracy, was in same bag as drug paraphernalia
• emphasizing that gun, admitted as evidence of drug conspiracy, was in same bag as drug paraphernalia
• discussing that drug dealers keep firearms “as tools of the trade almost to the same extent as they keep scales, glassine bags, cutting equipment, and other narcotics equipment”
• “We hold that the gun was relevant to the issues upon which Wiener was tried and that the court did not abuse its discretion in holding that its probative weight was not overbalanced by the inflammatory tendency of the gun as evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).