United States Ninth Circuit

Evidence that defendant knew co-conspirator carried a firearm while trafficking drugs is sufficient to sustain a conviction for the use, carrying, or possession of a gun in relation to a drug-trafficking crime.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/02/2000
• Decided 11/08/2000
• Published 11/08/2000

Judges

• Before:  WOOD, Jr.,KLEINFELD, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael P. Simon, Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Brian I. Rademacher, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Tucson, Arizona, for the defendant-appellant., Robert Miskell and Christina M. Cabanillas, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Appellate Section, Tucson, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellee.