Legal Opinion
United States of America, Cross-Appellee v. Clifford Timmons
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 26, 2002No. 00-15795, 00-16326PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORENO, District Judge:
This appeal concerns the sufficiency of the evidence at trial of two separate charges of possessing a firearm illegally, as well as a challenge to the sentence imposed pursuant to guilty pleas to drug offenses. The defendant appeals the refusal of the district court to grant a post-verdict judgment of acquittal on Count One, which charged the defendant with using and carrying a firearm on October 23, 1998 “during and in relation to” a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The government appeals the same district court’s grant of a post-verdict…
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