Court Opinion

ID: 9487360
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:14:37.343396+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:13.591657
License: Public Domain

SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I think it most unfortunate that the majority opinion is directed, virtually entirely, at our past precedent dealing with the difficult question presented. We agreed, through the en bancmg of these cases, that we needed to think harder about § 924(c) to see if we could arrive at a more coherent standard firmly rooted in the statute. The standard advanced in Judge Williams’ lucid opinion represents the product of that rethinking — at least on the part of the dissenters — and I would have thought that the majority might have marshaled the effort to confront fully the analysis set forth in the dissent.