Legal Opinion
United States v. Joe Clark Thornton
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1983No. 83-3015PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The issues in this appeal of a federal firearms conviction are (1) whether Thornton’s arrest and the seizure of the gun violated the Fourth Amendment, (2) whether admission of a government form evidencing nonregistration was reversible error, and (3) whether the district court’s order that the sentences run consecutively to a state sentence was beyond its authority.
FACTS
While patrolling early one morning, Officer Cobley of the Boise Police received a radio message that a car was parked near an intersection partially in the traffic lane with its lights on.
Cobley…
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