Legal Opinion
United States v. Jeffrey Beavers
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 16, 2000No. 99-1829PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s order denying Jeffrey Beavers’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea and to dismiss his indictment for the possession of firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9). Section 922(g)(9) prohibits a person previously convicted of “a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” from possessing a firearm. Beavers argues that this section violates his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment because it does not require the government to prove, as an element of the offense, that he knew that his possession of a firearm was…
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