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Timestamp: 2015-08-02 18:29:05
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 846', '§ 812', '§ 924', '§ 922', '§ 922', 'art:\n15']

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404 F3d 163 United States v. Watson 404 F.3d 163
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Roger WATSON, Defendant-Appellant,Delroy Reid, Defendant.
Docket No. 03-1709.
Jacob W. Buchdahl, Assistant United States Attorney (Margery B. Feinzig, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel; David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. for Appellee.
Jeremy Gutman (Ilissa Brownstein, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before: KEARSE and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN, District Judge.*
Defendant Roger Watson appeals from a judgment in a criminal case, entered on October 21, 2003, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Colleen McMahon, Judge). Defendant argues that the District Court erred by denying, without a hearing, his motion to suppress the fruits of an allegedly illegal search of a residence. We affirm the denial of the suppression motion because we hold (1) that defendant failed to demonstrate that he had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the residence searched; and (2) that the District Court did not err by reaching this conclusion without an evidentiary hearing. Defendant also argues that, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, ___ U.S. ___, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004), his sentence is constitutionally infirm. We remand this case for consideration of whether resentencing should occur, in accordance with our decision in United States v. Crosby, 397 F.3d 103 (2d Cir.2005).
Defendant was convicted of one count of conspiring to traffic in marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846; one count of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 812, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(D); one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c); two counts of possessing a firearm with an altered serial number, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(k); and two counts of possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A). The District Court sentenced defendant principally to a term of 130 months' imprisonment.
Prior to trial, defendant moved in the District Court to suppress physical evidence seized pursuant to an allegedly illegal search of the premises located at 33-18 Fish Avenue in Bronx, New York. An affirmation, dated April 11, 2003, was filed by defendant's counsel in support of defendant's motion.1 It stated, in relevant part:
15. On November 25, 2002 a search warrant ... was executed at the premises at 33-18