United States v. Daniel Nelson Silva

BULLOCK, District Judge:

Appellant Silva was convicted of violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(h), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and 18 U.S.C. § 1071, harboring and concealing a fugitive. On appeal, Silva makes numerous evidentiary and procedural challenges.

Factual Statement

On November 18,1978, Robert Fieldmore Lewis, a convicted murderer, escaped from a Florida penitentiary. Later that evening, Lewis and Silva appeared together at the Florida motel room of Martha Ann Stein-horst, who had aided in Lewis’s escape by providing him with a prison guard’s uniform. The three watched the…