United States v. Steven F. Cochran

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents two issues. First, whether defendant’s fourth amendment rights were violated when he was detained by police officials in order to execute a search warrant for his residence. Second, *338whether the District Court abused its discretion in giving a supplemental Allen1 charge to the jury rather than granting defendant’s motion for a mistrial. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM.

I

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Defendant pled guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm not identified by a serial number in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), (i), and was convicted of interstate…