Legal Opinion
United States v. Mahan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 16, 2009No. 08-30475PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether an individual who trades drugs for guns possesses the firearms “in furtherance of’ his drug trafficking offense.
I
A
Late on the evening of November 30, 2005, Zane Isabell and Shawn Copley offered to sell several stolen firearms to William Mahan. Copley initially called his mother to gauge her interest in acquiring them; during this phone call, he ultimately spoke with Mahan, who was living with Copley’s mother at the time. Based on Copley’s conversation with Mahan, Copley and Isabell drove to his mother’s house with the stolen firearms. After…
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