United States v. Price

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Delray Price was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm after Portland police officers found a gun hidden beneath the driver’s seat of a car in which he was riding in the rear. Although the government presented circumstantial evidence that Price placed the firearm under the seat as the car was being pulled over, the evidence that sealed his fate at trial was testimony from a witness named Antoinette Phillips. Phillips testified that approximately fifteen minutes before Price was pulled over he was with her and some friends at her aunt’s home when she…