United States v. Charles John McCarty

PAUL KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Mr. McCarty appeals his conviction on five counts of federal firearms violations alleging that the search upon which his convictions are predicated violated the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution; the district court violated his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation by prohibiting cross examination of two prosecution witnesses for bias; and the district court erred in applying the Sentencing Guidelines by ordering Mr. McCarty to serve his federal sentence consecutively to a previously imposed state criminal sentence.

Background

In October 1991,…