Legal Opinion
United States v. Esau Juarez-Ortega
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 31, 1989No. 88-2547PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Per curiam
The defendant, convicted of two counts of distribution of cocaine, challenges the district court’s consideration during sentencing of his possession of a handgun, on the grounds that the jury acquitted him of a substantive count of carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. Finding that the district court could properly consider all the evidence during sentencing, we affirm.
I
On January 22, 1988, two undercover detectives purchased six one-hundredths of a gram of cocaine for $20 from Esau Juarez-Ortega, the defendant, at his apartment in Corpus Christi, Texas. Three days later the…
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