Legal Opinion

Dreher v. United States Ex Rel. United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided June 19, 1997No. 96-31161PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Hugh Dreher appeals a summary judgment in which the district court refused to declare that he has not been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(20) (West Supp.1997). Finding no error, we affirm.

I

Dreher entered a plea of nolo contendere in August 1987 to two counts involving mail fraud: conspiracy to commit mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and mail fraud and aiding and abetting in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 & 1342. The charges arose from a scheme by which Dreher, an…

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