Articles Posted in Firearms Offenses

Federal Gun Cases: Will Justice Gorsuch Make a Difference??
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I’ve handled hundreds of gun cases prosecuted in the federal court system over the past 36 years, here in Atlanta and elsewhere.  Most federal gun prosecutions involve a claim that the Defendant had a firearm (or ammunition) and the accused was a “prohibited person” who cannot have the gun.  Most times it is the usual…

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Fascination: The U.s. Supreme Court Once Again Looks at Federal Gun Law
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The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the root word of “fascination” as “to transfix or hold spellbound by an irresistible power.”  Since 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States has on all least 13 occasions directly addressed various aspects of the federal gun crime found at 18 U.S.C. §924(c).  A total of forty-three Supreme Court…

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Supreme Court Reverses Federal Criminal Sentence for Possessing Firearm: The Long Saga of the Armed Career Criminal Act
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The United States Supreme Court reversed a federal criminal sentence last week that was imposed on a man who had a lengthy record.  The Defendant fell into the maw of the much-maligned Armed Career Criminal Act (the “ACCA”).  Under the ACCA, a person who possesses a firearm and who has three or more qualifying prior…

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Challenges to Whether Something Is Even a Federal Crime: My 15-Year Battle Against the “straw Purchase” Theory Might Bear Fruit in the Supreme Court
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I am always harping about how lawyers defending against federal crimes need to be creative, and need to challenge whether their clients even committed a crime. About 15 years ago, I raised a series of challenges against what is called the “straw purchase” theory of liability when a person buys a gun but later transfers…

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Federal Gun Laws: Supreme Court Will Decide if Anyone Convicted of Misdemeanor Family Battery Crimes Is Always Prohibited From Having a Firearm
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The United States Supreme Court recently announced that it will take on the case of U.S. v. Castleman. In that case, the federal court of appeals decided that Mr. Castleman’s prior conviction in Tennessee for “misdemeanor domestic assault” did not fall within the federal crime that prohibits gun possession by anyone with a prior conviction…

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Guns and Voting: Restoration of Civil Right to Vote Not Enough to Get Around Federal Ban on Possession Gun After Felony Conviction
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A recent case out of Alabama addressed the intersection between gun possession and having the right to vote restored after an earlier felony conviction. As just about everybody knows, a person convicted of a felony usually loses some of their “civil rights”, even if they never go to jail. The federal government makes it a…

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Abbott: Supreme Court Unanimously Holds § 924(c) “Except” Clause Applies Only to Greater Minimum Sentences Otherwise Provided for the Same Conduct Prohibited by § 924(c)
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This Monday the federal Supreme Court issued its opinion in Abbott v. United States, together with Gould v. United States. The Court held 8-0 (Justice Kagan took no part in the decision) that a defendant is subject to the highest mandatory minimum sentence specified in § 924(c) unless another provision of law directed to conduct…

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Davis: United States Supreme Court Will Hear Case Arising Out of the Eleventh Circuit Regarding the Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in Criminal Cases
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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Davis v. United States. The Court will resolve a federal circuit court split: whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a search that is later ruled unconstitutional. This March, the Eleventh Circuit held in Davis that the exclusionary rule does not apply…

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U.S. v. Belfast: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds That § 924(c) May Apply to Crimes of Violence Committed Outside United States Territory
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Last month, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which makes it a federal crime to use or possess a firearm in connection with a crime of violence, can apply to crimes of violence committed outside the United States. In U.S. v. Belfast, the first case prosecuting an individual under…

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Gilbert: Eleventh Circuit Corrects “complete Miscarriage of Justice” in Federal Criminal Sentencing Under Career Offender Enhancement
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This Monday, the Eleventh Circuit held in Gilbert v. United States that, for federal sentencing purposes, the act of being a U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 career offender is essentially a separate offense. Based upon the Supreme Court’s retroactive decision in Begay and the Eleventh Circuit’s implementation of that decision in Archer, Gilbert is actually innocent of…

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