United States v. Davis

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PAYNE, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the motion of the Defendant, DeAndre Davis, to dismiss the Indictment that charges him with a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) by being both a felon in possession of a firearm and a drug user in possession of a firearm. The Defendant’s motion raises the issue whether an adjudication of juvenile delinquency in the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia for an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment exceeding one year qualifies as a “conviction” of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one…