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193190P.pdf 04/16/2021 United States v. Cedric Wright
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-3190
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Loken, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not
err in admitting eight government exhibits showing defendant with cash and
guns, discussing his possession of the firearm used in the charged
offenses and showing his contact with his co-defendant on the day of the
robbery and also his location near the phone taken in the carjacking;
challenge to instruction on carjacking rejected; instructions defining
"carried a firearm" were not erroneous; evidence was sufficient to support
defendant's convictions for carjacking, carrying a firearm in relation to
a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person;
no error in imposing an enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 2K2.1(b)(1) for
possession of between 3 and 7 firearms; nor did the court err in imposing
an enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 2B3.1(b)(5), the carjacking offense
characteristic, as Sec. 2B3.1 and the corresponding base level of 20 did
not fully account for defendant's conduct; imposition of the enhancement
was not double counting.