Legal Opinion
United States v. Odell Marbley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 9, 1996No. 94-2658PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The defendant was convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and was sentenced to 108 months in prison. The only ground of the appeal is that- no reasonable jury could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the offense with which he was charged. Appeals on this ground rarely succeed and there is no reason to suppose this case an exception. The gun was found in the back of a car driven by the defendant (he fled when the. police stopped him) and the girlfriend’s explanation for the presence of…
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3Cited by23 opinions
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