Legal Opinion
Sherman Myers v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1999No. 98-3805PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
Sherman Myers was indicted on the charge of being a felon in possession of firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Prior to trial, he sought to stipulate that he had prior felony convictions, which he was willing to do in order to prevent the government from revealing the nature of these earlier crimes to the jury. After the district court denied his request, Myers and the government stipulated that the felonies identified in the indictment were accurate. The jury was thereafter informed of their nature.
Myers was convicted in July of 1995 and later sentenced…
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