Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Quintero-Barraza v. United States

519 U.S. 848

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1996-10-07
Topic
bankruptcy

How later courts describe this case

  • explaining that evidence must be viewed “in the light most favorable to the government,” drawing all inferences and deciding all issues of credibility in the government’s favor
  • “[I]f Congress uses a common-law term in a federal criminal statute without defining it, we must presume that Congress adopted the common-law definition of that term.”
  • gun stored underneath change dish between front car seats during drug sale from car was not ‘used’ because it wasnot fired, was not visible, and was not mentioned

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.