United States v. Wendall Nicholson

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• stating that district court decisions involving “control of the docket and parties . . . are reviewed only for abuse of discretion” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that district court decisions involving “control of the docket and parties . . . are reviewed only for abuse of discretion” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding sufficient nexus existed between drug trafficking crime and gun where gun was located directly underneath the driver’s seat of a car that also 10 Appellate Case: 24-8033 Document: 50-1 Date Filed: 04/17/2025 Page: 11 contained drug paraphernalia and cash
• noting “[t]he power of district courts to manage their dockets is deeply ingrained in our jurisprudence”
• “the fact that defendant carried the weapon for personal protection when engaged in lawful activities does not negate the effect of its presence during illegal narcotics transactions.”
• “[T]he fact that defendant carried the weapon for personal protection when engaged in lawful activities does not negate the effect of its presence during illegal narcotics transactions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).