United States v. Joseph Edmund Williams, A/K/A Abdullah Shabazz, A/K/A Taharqa Abdullah Shabazz

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote thé opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Judge DUNCAN joined.

OPINION

TRAXLER, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Williams, who had previously been convicted of a felony, was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. See 18 U.S.C.A. § 922(g)(1) (West 2000). Over Williams’s objection, the district court permitted the government to prove Williams’s possession of a weapon through evidence linking Williams to the killing of Gail Collins. Because of the then-uncertain status of the Sentencing Guidelines, 1…