Legal Opinion
United States v. Nikolaos B. Baker
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 22, 1996No. 95-2788PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Nikolaos Baker’s conviction, on charges of possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute and using or carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), and this appeal straddle the decision last December by the United States Supreme Court in Bailey v. United States, — U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 501, 133 L.Ed.2d 472 (1995).
Because firearm charges under § 924(c) are a staple of federal court jurisprudence, and Bailey significantly curtailed the scope of the law, many cases, and Baker’s is a good example, present interesting…
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