United States v. Willie Boyd

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• concluding that firearm located next to bag of approximately 33.72 grams of cocaine indicated intent to distribute
• concluding that firearm located next to bag of approximately 33.72 grams of cocaine indicated intent to distribute
• holding that a jury may infer intent to distribute from circumstantial evidence like drug quantity and the presence of cash, packaging material, or other distribution paraphernalia
• holding the evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant for intent to distribute cocaine because a gun was located next to the drugs
• holding a protective sweep must be “quick and limited” and “initially confined to places large enough to conceal a person”
• suggesting that a bench trial \decreases the potential for the trier of fact to lose its way amidst the varied evidence necessary to prove\ multiple charges

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).