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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JESSE GREGORY FAIRLEY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 8, 2025

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Dennis C. Belli, LAW OFFICE, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: W. Connor Winn, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Judge(s): CLAY, WHITE, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Cleveland

DAVIS, Circuit Judge. In September 2020, Jesse Fairley chose a local convenience-store parking lot as his base of operation to sell crack cocaine. He caught the eye of a local law-enforcement officer assigned to a federal task force, who watched Fairley conduct hand-to- hand transactions in the parking lot. When members of law enforcement closed in on Fairley and searched the parked vehicle he had frequented throughout the surveillance of his activities, they found handguns and a “bunch” of cash sitting in the open, as well as crack cocaine and marijuana in a compartment next to where Fairley had been seated. (Trial Tr., R. 59, PageID 457). A jury convicted Fairley of possessing with the intent to distribute crack cocaine, possessing a firearm after a felony conviction, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. After receiving a thirty-year sentence, Fairley promptly appealed his conviction.

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