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No. 11-4585
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Leonie M. Brinkema,
District Judge. (1:10-cr-00438-LMB-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
December 8, 2011
PER CURIAM:
Joseph
Allen
Smith
was
indicted
on
one
count
of
in
846
(2006),
furtherance
and
one
count
of
possession
the
conspiracy
in
violation
of
of
of
a
18
the
count,
conspiracy
to
be
followed
by
sixty
months
appeal,
Smith
contends
that
the
evidence
was
This court is
light
most
favorable
to
the
849,
United
862
States,
(4th
Cir.
1996)
315
U.S.
60,
Government,
verdict
is
(en
80
the
banc)
(1942)).
(citing
We
Glasser
have
v.
defined
could
accept
as
adequate
and
sufficient
to
support
well
as
direct
evidence,
and
allow[s]
the
government
the
1018,
1021
(4th
Cir.
1982),
and
assumes
that
the
fact
Cir.
[A]s
2008).
evidence
though
may
it
be
general
sufficient
does
not
to
377,
387
omitted).
(4th
Cir.
support
exclude
proposition,
every
circumstantial
guilty
verdict
reasonable
even
hypothesis
2008)
(alteration
and
quotation
marks
United States v.
Moye, 454 F.3d 390, 394 (4th Cir. 2006) (en banc) (internal
quotation marks and citation omitted).
In
order
to
prove
violation
of
924(c),
the
to
drugs
and
drug
profits,
and
the
Id.
time
and
that
Smith
dealt
drugs
from
his
The evidence
home
and
that
the
enforcement
officer
and
acknowledged
keeping
the
to
jail
handgun
for
inmate
in
protection
which
against
he
drug
for
concealed
weapon
permit
at
time
in
the
924(c)
conviction.
Accordingly,
we
affirm
the