
USCA1 Opinion

	




          August 1, 1995                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 95-1109                                    UNITED STATES,                                      Appellee,                                          v.                                    ERIC HOPKINS,                                Defendant, Appellant.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                        FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND                [Hon. Raymond J. Pettine, Senior U.S. District Judge]                                          __________________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Robert D. Oster and Oster & Sawyer on brief for appellant.            _______________     ______________            Sheldon  Whitehouse,   United  States  Attorney,   and  Gerald  B.            ___________________                                     __________        Sullivan, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.        ________                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                 Per Curiam.  We have carefully reviewed the record.  For                 __________            the  reasons stated by  the district court  at sentencing and            the  government in its appellate brief, the court did not err            in concluding that the pistol was "used or possessed . . . in            connection with another felony offense."  USSG   2K2.1(b)(5).            That the gun could  reasonably be viewed as having  "had some            potential  emboldening role  in .  . .  defendant's felonious            conduct"  is enough.  United  States v. Routon,  25 F.3d 815,                                  ______________    ______            819 (9th Cir. 1994).                 The judgment is summarily affirmed.  Loc. R. 27.1.                        
