United States v. Willie Christopher Johnson

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• holding that constructive possession is not established where the government fails to establish some nexus between the defendant and the contraband
• holding that constructive possession is not established where the government fails to establish some nexus between the defendant and the contraband
• construing a challenge to the district court's denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal and a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge as indistinguishable for purposes of review
• finding passenger controlled a firearm when gun protruded from bag within two feet of him
• upholding a finding that a defendant possessed a gun that was protruding from a bag of his clothes on the seat behind him in a car
• upholding a finding that a defendant possessed a gun that was protruding from a bag of his clothes on the seat behind him in a car

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