Legal Opinion
United States v. Antonio Lopez-Perera
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 21, 2006No. 05-50102PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
Antonio Lopez-Perera appeals his conviction of violating 18 U.S.C § 922(g)(5)(A), (being an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States in possession of a firearm). He assigns error to the denial of his Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion seeking a judgment of acquittal. Because the district court misinterpreted the meaning of the statute, it erred in denying the motion.
I. Background
On May 9, 2004, Lopez-Perera, a citizen of Mexico, drove his van, with no passengers, from Mexico into the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California. When first asked by an…
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