apartment for storing and packaging drugs and also admitted that he limited access to the apartment to people whom he trusted to protect his drugs.  Stanley also testified himself.  He stated that he stayed in the apartment from time to time but did not live there, denied knowledge of the gun and denied reaching toward the drawer or moving from the bed at all when the agents came in.  He also claimed that he did not see the drugs or drug paraphernalia in the apartment, relating an implausible story to account for not seeing the items in plain view.


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Stanley principally argues that the most a jury could conclude from this evidence was that he was present in an apartment containing drugs, or that he was As the government argues, the jury could infer from Stanley's lunge for the gun concealed in the dresser that he was familiar with the apartment and its contents, including the drugs and drug paraphernalia found there.  Because Stanley reached for the gun in response to the announced entry of law enforcement authorities, and also because Tripp acknowledged that he limited access to the apartment to those who would protect his drugs, the jury could also infer that Stanley was using the gun in defense of the drugs as a participant in the crack operation.  These inferences could be supported by finding that the apartment housing the crack operation was also Stanley's home, based on Stanley's presence, his reach for the gun, the clothing taken from