Legal Opinion
United States v. Collins
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 20, 1995No. 94-1049PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), Terry Lynn Collins received a sentence of more than 15 years (188 months) in prison. He appeals, claiming that his conviction should be reversed under United States v. Tavares, 21 F.3d 1 (1st Cir.1994) (en banc), in which this court, after Collins’ trial, changed its rule concerning the admissibility of the nature of the prior felony conviction in prosecutions under § 922(g)(1). Collins also argues that the court abused its discretion in admitting as an “excited utterance” the…
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