United States v. Tomi Mann, United States of America v. James F. Pollender

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• holding that guns located within a locked safe in the defen- UNITED STATES v. MAHAN 15265 dant’s truck were not possessed “in furtherance of” trafficking drugs located within a tent
• “We recognize that persons . . . engaged in criminal activities . . . will fre- quently carry weapons to protect their enterprise.”
• defen- dant’s possession of a firearm at a drug trafficking crime scene insufficient to convict where firearm was in a locked safe inside of a parked truck
• warrant was sufficiently particular, in part, because “officers had no additional information available that would have allowed them to describe the items more particularly at the time the warrant was issued”
• warrant was sufficiently particular, in part, because “officers had no additional information available that would have allowed them to describe the items more particularly at the time the warrant was issued”

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