Legal Opinion

United States v. Juan M. Feliciano

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided January 17, 1995No. 94-2395PublishedCited by 50 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Imaginative police work led to the conviction of Juan Feliciano of being a felon in possession of a gun. He was sentenced as an armed career criminal to 198 months in prison because of his long record of violent crimes. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). His appeal, which challenges the denial of a motion that he made in the district court to keep the gun out of evidence, 830 F.Supp. 448 (N.D.Ill. 1993), requires us to consider once again the much-litigated issue of the limits that the Fourth Amendment places on the power of the police to make a stop and frisk. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1,…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. United States v. CortezSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  3. United States v. SokolowSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  4. United States v. HensleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. United States v. Patrick Nolan McSwainCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994

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3Cited by50 opinions

  1. United States v. John Michael PerkinsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2004
  2. United States v. Christopher DuguayCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
  3. Boim v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief & DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
  4. United States v. Harry ShololaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
  5. Grace Olech v. Village of WillowbrookCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998

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