Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert William Barton
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 6, 2018No. 17-10559PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Robert Barton was charged by a grand jury sitting in the Middle District of Florida, tried by a petit jury, and convicted in a single count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g). The evidence adduced at trial was overwhelming, including Barton's two confessions, first at the scene of his arrest and later to a jailhouse informant, corroborating testimony from the passenger in Barton's vehicle at the time of the arrest, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence directly linking Barton to the firearm. The single issue raised on…
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