U.S. v. REYES DIAZ

Crim. No. 91-329 (JP).

797 F.Supp. 96 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Arturo REYES DIAZ, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

August 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernesto Hernández, Asst. U.S. Atty., Hato Rey, P.R., for plaintiff.

José A. Fuentes Agostini, San Juan, P.R., for defendant.


ORDER

PIERAS, District Judge.

In order to resolve the issue of whether the government has presented sufficient evidence to prove that the defendant "used or carried" a firearm "during and in relation to a ... drug trafficking crime" pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), we must closely examine the factual contexts of the relevant case law. In all the cases cited by both the government and the defendant, the "nexus to the drug transaction" standard was...

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