Legal Opinion
United States v. Constant
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 3, 2016No. 14-1066PPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Brunei Constant of illegally possessing a firearm after he had been previously convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of more than one year. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2). Sentenced to 74 months of imprisonment, Constant now appeals. His principal challenge is to the denial of his pretrial motion to bar a government witness, Adam Dennis, from identifying Constant at trial. He also challenges (1) trial defense counsel’s pretrial advice concerning application of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”) to his case; (2) the…
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