Corey Kidd v. United States

Corey Kidd pleaded guilty in 2011 to using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c)(1)(A), which provides consecutive mandatory minimum sentences for "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime ... uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm." The crime of violence underlying Kidd's conviction was aiding and abetting armed robbery of controlled substances in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 , 2118(a), and 2118(c)(1). The district court 1 denied Kidd's 2016 motion…