Legal Opinion

United States v. Laurence Robert Otto

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided October 6, 1995No. 95-1104PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Laurence Robert Otto was convicted of possessing an unregistered sawed-off rifle in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d). The district court 1 imposed a sentence of seventy-two months. Otto appeals both his conviction and his sentence. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In March 1994, Otto was indicted by a federal grand jury on two weapons charges and ten counts of mailing a threatening communication. The charges accused Otto of being the “man in black” who had stalked and harassed Marilyn O’Leary and Clinton Bloom by firing bullets into their unoccupied vehicles, sending threatening…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Staples v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  2. United States v. Mark John Lamere, United States of America v. Jean-Paul Allen LamereCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
  3. United States v. Katherine Isabel BarrCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
  4. United States v. Kim Rolene SweetCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
  5. United States v. Jack Warren NomelandCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993

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3Cited by21 opinions

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  3. United States v. Randall Dean RohwedderCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
  4. United States v. Alfred M. CraftCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2007
  5. United States v. Jose Angel Chavarria-CabreraCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001

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