United States v. Hilton A. Lake, Hilton A. Lake

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge

This is an appeal from a judgment in a criminal case. . After a jury trial, the defendant, Hilton A. Lake, was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) of using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, namely, a carjacking (see 18 U.S.C. § 2119). Lake challenges his conviction on numerous grounds, the most substantial of which is that he did not violate the carjacking statute because, he argues, he did not take the motor vehicle in question “from the person or presence” of the victim. We reject this and Lake’s other arguments,…