United States v. Ludger Vance Clement

FAGG, Circuit Judge.

Ludger Vance Clement stands convicted under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) of possessing a firearm not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. On appeal, Clement argues (1) that the seizure and admission into evidence of the firearm violated his fourth amendment rights because the search warrant contained a fatal defect, and (2) that certain instructions given by the trial judge to the jury were biased in favor of the United States and denied Clement his right to a fair trial. We affirm.

On April 26, 1983, police- officers executed a search warrant…