BUCKLEY

v.

FITZSIMMONS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Smith v. United States, 508 U.S. 223 (U.S. 1993)
  …uit held that trading a gun in a drug-related transaction could not constitute use of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense within the meaning of § 924(e)(1). We granted certiorari to resolve the conflict among the Circuits. 506 U. S. 814 (1992). We now affirm. II Section 924(c)(1) requires the imposition of specified penalties if the defendant, “during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime[,] uses or carries a firearm.” By its terms, the statute requir…
• Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366 (U.S. 1993)
  …e Supreme Court read the record, the officer conducting the search ascertained that the lump in respondent’s jacket was contraband only after probing and investigating what he certainly knew was not a weapon. See id., at 844. We granted certiorari, 506 U. S. 814 (1992), to resolve a conflict among the state and federal courts over whether contraband detected through the sense of touch during a patdown search may be admitted into evidence.1 We now affirm.2 [*372] II A The Fourth Amendment, made applicable…
• Deal v. United States, 508 U.S. 129 (U.S. 1993)
  …F. 2d 262 (1992). We granted certiorari on the question whether petitioner’s second through sixth convictions under § 924(c)(1) in this single proceeding arose “[i]n the ease of his second or subsequent conviction” within the meaning of § 924(e)(1). 506 U. S. 814 (1992). Petitioner contends that the language of § 924(c)(1) is facially ambiguous, and should therefore be construed in his favor pursuant to the rule of lenity. His principal argument in this regard is that the word “conviction” can, according to…