Legal Opinion
United States v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 20, 2009No. 08-2413PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Cortez L. Williams was convicted by a jury of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and sentenced to forty-six months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release. Before trial, the district court 1 denied Williams’s motions to suppress evidence and to dismiss the indictment. Williams appeals his conviction, arguing that the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress the firearm because the officers who arrested him impermissibly conducted a protective sweep of his home. Williams also contends…
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