Legal Opinion
United States v. Stanley Yelardy
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 28, 1978No. 74-2253PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
Following a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Pratt, J.), appellant Yelardy was convicted of one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment to be served consecutively with a federal sentence he had previously received. He appeals on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel at trial.
There is substantial, unchallenged evidence of Yelardy’s guilt. An inmate of the Milan Federal Institution at Milan, Michigan, he was…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Millard Robert Beasley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- David Leroy Washington v. Charles E. Strickland, Superintendent, Florida State Prison, and Jim Smith, Attorney General of the State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- John S. Freund v. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1997
- Williams v. AbshireDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1982
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