Legal Opinion

United States v. Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Hamdi, United States of America v. Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Hamdi

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided January 23, 2004No. 03-4452, 03-4655PublishedCited by 124 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Williams wrote the opinion, in which Judge King and Judge Duncan joined.

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, Ibrahim Al-Hamdi, a citizen of the Republic of Yemen, contests his prosecution and conviction for violating 18 U.S.C.A. § 922(g)(5)(B) (West 2000), which prohibits possession of a firearm by a non-immigrant alien. Al-Hamdi’s principal argument is that, as the family member of a diplomat, he possessed diplomatic immunity at the time of his arrest and that the State Department later tried to revoke that immunity retroactively, in violation…

2Cases cited20 opinions

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