United States v. Walker, No. 15-50646 (5th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty without a plea agreement to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. Defendant argued that the district court plainly erred when it accepted his plea because there was an inadequate factual basis for the conviction. In this case, defendant possessed the firearms in his residence along with a substantial amount of drugs. Furthermore, defendant's possession of the firearms was illegal because he was a convicted felon at the time. In light of these facts, as well as the number and type of firearms seized from defendant’s residence combined with the fact that he was a methamphetamine supplier with a large amount of methamphetamine at his residence, the district court's acceptance of defendant's guilty plea was not clear error. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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