United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is affirmed, where the District Court properly enhanced Defendant's sentence under U.S.S.G. section 2K2.1(b)(6), because Defendant's possession of the gun was "in connection with" his possession of cocaine base, as he used the gun to protect himself in the course of selling the drugs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2009
• Published 05/15/2009

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, EUGENE E. SILER, JR., Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation, and ROBERT J. CONRAD, JR., Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Ann Briks Walsh, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Sean Kittrell, Office of the United States Attorney, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  W. Walter Wilkins, United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.