Legal Opinion
United States v. Xavier E. Holmes
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 7, 2005No. 12-1427PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELLOY, Circuit Judge.
Xavier Holmes appeals his conviction by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm that had traveled in interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). We reverse and remand for a new trial.
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Two police officers, Officer Snyder and Officer LeMoine, were dispatched to an apartment where Mr. Holmes and a gun were found after Brenda Williams (a sister of Mr. Holmes’s girlfriend, Sheila Perry) called 911 and reported that there was a disturbance at the apartment involving a person armed with a gun. The door to the apartment was wide open when the officers…
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