United States v. Coleman

ORDER

A police officer stopped Michael Coleman for walking in the middle of a residential street in Indianapolis. Coleman gave the officer a phony name, and after this lie was discovered, another officer searched him and found a handgun in his pocket. Coleman was arrested under an Indiana statute criminalizing the refusal to provide identification, Ind. Code § 34-28-5-3.5, and federal authorities then charged him with possessing a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Coleman filed an unsuccessful motion to suppress, and afterward he entered a conditional guilty plea allowing him to…