Legal Opinion
United States v. Gene Grady Bullock, A/K/A Grady Gene Bullock
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1980No. 79-2008PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether 18 U.S.C. App. § 1202(a)(1), defining as a criminal offense the receipt, possession, or transportation in commerce by a convicted felon of “any firearm,” allows the government to treat each of several firearms not simultaneously received or possessed as a separate unit of prosecution. We affirm because in our view, given the proper circumstances, the statute does allow the government to prosecute each weapon separately.
Appellant, Gene Grady Bullock, believing that he was meeting with a recruit for the Ku Klux Klan, met with undercover Agent…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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