Court Opinion

ID: 9489404
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Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:15:10.582892+00
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ORDER ON REHEARING
Sept. 25, 1996
PER CURIAM:
We find that United States v. Lucien, 61 F.3d 366 (5th Cir.1995), does not control in this case. Lucien presented a factually different situation where instructional error in a predicate offense infected the conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1). The jury charge in Lucien failed to allow the jury to consider the lesser offense of possession, resulting in reversal of the predicate count. If in Lucien the found predicate offense had been possession of drugs as distinguished from distribution, the jury's view of the use of firearms found on the premises might have been quite different. Moreover, in Lucien, the government did not contest the reversal of the § 924(c)(1) conviction on the grounds that inconsistent verdicts may stand and therefore effectively conceded that point. We decline to interpret Lucien as changing the universally held view that inconsistent verdicts may stand. United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57, 105 S.Ct. 471, 83 L.Ed.2d 461 (1984). The remaining contentions are also without merit and are rejected. Judge Schwarzer adheres to his dissent.
Treating the suggestion for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing, it is ordered that the petition for panel rehearing is DENIED. No member of the panel nor Judge in regular active service of this court having requested that the court be polled on rehearing en banc (Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and Local Rule 35), the suggestion for Rehearing En Banc is DENIED.