Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Paleo, United States v. Robert P. Paleo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 18, 1992No. 90-1598, 90-1774PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
Robert Paleo entered a guilty plea to a charge of unlawful gun possession. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (forbidding previously convicted felons from possessing firearms). The district court sentenced him to a prison term of twenty-one months, 738 F.Supp. 611. Both sides appeal.
Paleo claims that the court should have granted his motion to suppress (on constitutional grounds) the government’s most important evidence, the gun itself. We find Paleo’s arguments unconvincing, and we affirm his conviction.
The government claims that the district court should have counted, for purposes of…
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