Opinion ID: 2812236
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: 3d 133, 140 n.3 (2d Cir. 2001).

Text: The Government presented overwhelming evidence that Tommy Edelin organized or supervised five or more people in committing a series of underlying predicate acts, including his conspiracy to distribute drugs for profit. That evidence includes extensive testimony from cooperating witnesses whom Edelin organized, along with others, for purposes of drug distribution and drug-related murders. Viewed in the light most favorable to the Government, a rational jury could easily have found the essential elements of continuing criminal enterprise beyond a reasonable doubt. We therefore 15 affirm Tommy Edelin’s continuing criminal enterprise conviction. F Defendant Marbury challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions under D.C. law for possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, as charged in Counts 70-73. The jury acquitted Marbury of the underlying assaults but convicted him of the firearm charges. Marbury concedes, as he must, that a jury may find him guilty of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence without convicting him of the underlying offense, “so long as there is evidence in the record to support a conviction of the compound offense.” Ransom v. United States, 630 A.2d 170, 172 (D.C. 1993). He argues that the evidence is insufficient to prove that he committed the offense of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. Multiple cooperating witnesses provided detailed testimony about Marbury’s role in the charged assaults, all of which involved shootings directed at the Stanton Terrace Crew. In all but one of the attacks, one of the testifying witnesses had participated in the crime with Marbury. In the remaining instance, that witness testified that Marbury had asked him for help in covering up Marbury’s role in the shooting. Another Government witness testified that after that assault, Marbury had asked to trade guns because his gun had a victim’s “body” on it. July 2, 2001 Trial Tr. at 12065 (Thomas Sims). According to the witnesses, Marbury carried a firearm during each assault. Based on that testimony, a rational jury could readily find that Marbury participated in each underlying assault. We 16 therefore affirm his convictions for possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.