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Muscarello v. United States

United States Supreme Court

524 U.S. 125 (1998)

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Muscarello (defendant) was convicted under a federal law criminalizing "us[ing] or carr[ying] a firearm" while trafficking drugs, based on a firearm found in his vehicle's locked glove compartment during a drug trafficking crime; the court of appeals affirmed, and Muscarello argued "carries a firearm" applied only to carrying a firearm on one's person, not in a vehicle. The Supreme Court granted certiorari, consolidating a similar case.

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Whether the statutory phrase "carries a firearm" is necessarily limited to the possession of a firearm on the defendant's person and not also applicable to possession of a firearm in a vehicle.

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