Legal Opinion
Vigeant v. United States
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided October 19, 2006No. C.A. 02-441SPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
WILLIAM E. SMITH, District Judge.
Facts arising from a now defunct criminal case begot the civil action currently before the Court. On May 12, 1997, a contingent of federal agents raided Plaintiff Robert A. Vigeant’s (“Vigeant” or “Plaintiff’) home in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The search yielded two firearms and, ultimately, Vigeant’s conviction by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Vigeant appealed, and was released after serving twenty-seven months of a 235-month sentence when the Court of Appeals vacated his conviction…
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