United States v. Spire Warren Routon

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the enhancement was properly applied to an interstate car thief where the defendant “kept [the gun] within a short distance” when driving stolen vehicles
• “Generally, public interest concerns are implicated when a constitutional right has been violated, because 26 all citizens have a stake in upholding the Constitution.”
• “[The defendant’s] apparent efforts to maintain the accessibility of his gun whenever he used his car permit the inference that the gun emboldened him to continue his illegal conduct.”
• enhancement for possession of a firearm in connection with unlawful possession of stolen car
• “used or possessed any firearm or ammunition in connection with another felony offense”
• “[T]o the extent that the government relies upon physical possession, it must show that the firearm was possessed in a manner that . . . had some potential emboldening role . . . in a defendant’s felonious conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).