Legal Opinion

United States v. William Maurice Smith

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided March 24, 1999No. 97-4227PublishedCited by 174 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtHansen, Circuit J.

William Maurice Smith conditionally pleaded guilty to two firearm charges. He conditioned his plea on the right to appeal the district court’s 1 denial of his motions to dismiss the indictment. Smith now appeals the denial of those motions. He also appeals one aspect of his sentence. We affirm.

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The facts underlying the current federal firearm charges occurred in 1996 when Smith, who was then twenty years old, bought a gun with a driver’s license that listed his age as twenty-one. On November 17, 1996, Smith shot and wounded Lauralee Lorenson during an argument. The grand jury returned a…

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