United States v. Maurice Cooke

COFFEY, Circuit Judge,

concurring.

I concur in the result reached by the majority, but I write separately because my colleagues’ opinions leave the unfortunate impression that the validity of this court’s very recent and very clear decision in United States v. Molina, 102 F.3d 928 (7th Cir.1996) is somehow in question. It was decided by a unanimous panel of this court, and it has neither been the subject of a petition for rehearing nor, as yet, an application for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. Molina is the law of this circuit and should be considered binding precedent in cases raising the question of what constitutes “carrying” a weapon “in relation to” a drug trafficking offense. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).