082414P.pdf   08/04/2009  United States  v.  Ontario Rush-Richardson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2414
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to
   support conviction for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug
   conspiracy as the government proved a nexus between the weapons and
   defendant's drug trafficking offense; however, the instruction defining
   the elements of the offense under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(c)(1)(A) was
   erroneous under this court's precedents; the error affected defendant's
   substantial rights because it allowed defendant to be convicted on the
   lower standard of "during and in relation to" and defendant's conviction
   on this count must be reversed. Judge Colloton, concurring.
  
082414P.pdf   07/09/2009  United States  v.  Ontario Rush-Richardson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2414
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. District court's instruction on possession
   of a firearm "in furtherance of" a drug crime was plain error, and the
   defendant's convictions for possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug
   trafficking are reversed and the matter remanded for a new trial. Judge
   Colloton, concurring.