U.S. v. Brown, No. 95-31000 (5th Cir.) (161 F.3d 256) (November 16, 1998) (Judge Emilio M. Garza)
Loaded on Jan. 1, 1999
published in Punch and Jurists
January 04, 1999
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Possession or Use of Firearms.
Here the Court expressly overruled U.S. v. Fike, 82 F.3d 1315 and U.S. v. Brown, 102 F.3d 1390.
Here the en banc court held that an erroneous pre-Bailey instruction on the "use" of a gun during a drug traficking offense was harmless error, since the jury necessarily found that the ...
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