Legal Opinion
United States v. Grace
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 7, 2004No. 03-1087PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
In this criminal appeal, we conclude that the district court supportably found that the defendant’s possession of a firearm to protect her drugs and proceeds of drug sales satisfied the nexus requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which punishes possession of a firearm “in furtherance of’ a drug trafficking offense. We also resolve an unresolved question about the consequences for a defendant making a sufficiency of the evidence attack on appeal who, in a jury-waived trial, failed to make a motion for a judgment of acquittal under Fed. R. Crina P. 29.
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We draw the historical…
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