United States v. Thomas Cureton

How courts have described this case

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• noting that res gestae “is usually propensity evidence simply disguised as inextricable intertwinement evidence, and is therefore improper” (quoting Gorman, 613 F.3d at 718)
• noting that the issue in unit-of- prosecution cases “is one of statutory interpretation, not of constitutional reach”
• explaining that a district court's sentencing determination is necessarily holistic, and so when part of a sentence is vacated, the court is entitled to resentence on all counts
• explaining that a district court’s sentencing determination is necessarily holistic, and so when part of a sentence is vacated, the court is entitled to resentence on all counts
• describing the “statute’s purpose” as punishing “the choice to use or possess a firearm in committing a predicate offense”
• involving a single act of pressing a gun to the victim’s head in making both an extortion and ransom request

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).