Sean A. Grady v. United States

Blackburne-Rigsby, Chief Judge:

Following a jury trial, appellant Sean Grady was convicted of carrying a pistol without a license ("CPWL") and unlawful possession of a controlled substance (marijuana). 1 These charges stem from a police stop in Northwest Washington, D.C., where appellant had dropped a gun in the street while speaking to a Metropolitan Police Department ("MPD") officer. Appellant sought to argue at trial that a high gun-crime rate in the neighborhood meant that the gun may have been left by someone other than appellant, and that he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.…