U.S. v. Casterline, No. 96-30036 (9th Cir.) (103 F.3d 76) (December 24, 1996) (Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 1997
published in Punch and Jurists
February 03, 1997
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Possession or Use of Firearms.
Here's one of those far-fetched crazy cases that shows the extremes to which prosecutors will sometimes go to notch up another easy conviction. The defendant was charged and convicted on three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The trouble ...
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