Legal Opinion
United States v. Phillip Wilson Bates
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 11, 1996No. 95-2280PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Phillip Bates challenges his conviction and sentence 1 for being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (1988). We affirm.
1. BACKGROUND
On January 1, 1994, United States Fish and Wildlife Special Agent Darwin Huggins was making routine equipment and hunting license checks on a boat ramp on the Cache River in Arkansas when a boat occupied by Phillip Bates pulled up. The boat contained two other individuals, Mike Harris and Deborah Hamilton, as well as hunting equipment, duck decoys, dead ducks, and two shotguns, one of which was…
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