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25-4023·CRIMINAL

United States v. Lucio Garcia

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether district court erred in admitting expert testimony that defendant possessed firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking for § 924(c) conviction.

Argument Date
September 15, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Dever

Panel

Chief Judge Diaz
Judge Richardson
Senior Judge Floyd

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Lucio Garcia, No. 25-4023 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 15, 2026)
PanelDiaz, C.J., Floyd, S.J., Richardson, J.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 4 cases argued September 15, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 4 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 14, 2026 and June 26, 2027, with January 9, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 43 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (438 prior subject cases + 7 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →

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