Commonwealth v. Indelicato

This advice was predicated on an assumption that both offenses to which the defendant was pleading guilty were misdemeanors, see G. L. c. 140, §§ 129B, first par., at (a), and 131, second par.; but it failed to take account of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)( 1)(1988), prohibiting felons from having possession of firearms or ammunition. Under the Federal law, a felon is one “who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year”; and although the term “crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” is itself defined to exclude “any State…