Legal Opinion
United States v. Milton Hawkins
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 3, 1987No. 86-1083PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Milton Hawkins, who was convicted of possession of a firearm by a felon *212under 18 U.S.C. app. § 1202(a)(1) and sentenced to a mandatory prison term of fifteen years because he had three prior convictions for burglary or robbery, challenges the legality of the stop which resulted in finding the gun and the legality of his sentence.
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Facts
At periodic intervals during the evening of March 20, 1985, Philadelphia police officers Robert Stott and Dennis Donlon were conducting plainclothes surveillance of a house in the Germantown section of…
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