Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Yi-Hai Lin v. United States

510 U.S. 1135

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1994-02-22
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • construing “ ‘in connection with’ a crime of violence” language of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.4(b)(3)(A), and citing Smith v. United States, — U.S.-,-, 113 S.Ct. 2050, 2054, 124 L.Ed.2d 138 (1993); Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37, 43, 100 S.Ct. 311, 314-15, 62 L.Ed.2d 199 (1979)
  • unnecessary to choose between competing approaches to § 2K2.1(b)(5), although question was one of first impression, where enhancement was correct under either test
  • government need not show actual use, but only that the firearm could have been used in facilitating a drug trafficking crime, to meet the “use” prong of section 924

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510 U.S. 1135

Yi-Hai Lin
v.
United States.

No. 93-7377.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 22, 1994.

1

Appeal from the C. A. 9th Cir.

2

Certiorari denied. Reported below: 5 F. 3d 544.