Legal Opinion
United States v. Leon Clifford Foster
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 5, 1998No. 89-10405PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
What does it mean to “carry a gun”? We must choose between two duelling interpretations of the phrase.
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Leon Foster and Sandra Ward manufactured methamphetamine. In 1989 the police got wise to them, pulled Foster over while he was driving his pickup truck and arrested him. In his truck bed, in a zipped up bag under a snap-down tarp, they found a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic and a bucket. Inside the bucket were a scale, plastic baggies, and some hand-written notes with prices.
Foster and Ward were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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