Opinion ID: 1467413
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Heading Rank: 8

Heading: PFCV Convictions

Text: West argues that the two counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence merge. We have held that multiple counts of PFCV merge when only one gun was used and the incidents were not separated by time and location. Nixon v. United States, 730 A.2d 145, 153 (D.C.), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 899, 120 S.Ct. 233, 145 L.Ed.2d 196 (1999). Under the facts of this case, the Nixon rule, based on an application of the rule of lenity, requires that the two PFCV counts merge into one. Id. The government does not contest this result. For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of conviction appealed from hereby is affirmed, except that the case is remanded to the trial court to vacate the conviction of one of merged offenses and for re-sentencing. So ordered.