Legal Opinion
United States v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 13, 2007No. 06-30535, 06-30563PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Nyron Jones was convicted by a jury of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Jones grounds his appeal of this conviction in the assertedly erroneous ruling of the district court that allowed the government to introduce evidence of a prior conviction for the same crime committed under circumstances virtually identical to those alleged in this case.
Also, at the time of his arrest, Jones was serving a term of supervised release related to his prior firearms conviction and thus was subject to revocation of release and reimprisonment…
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