Legal Opinion
United States v. Luis Fernandez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 2019No. 17-3421PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rovner, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Luis Fernandez of being a felon in possession of a firearm, see 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1). Fernandez appeals his conviction, contending that the district court committed three evidentiary errors that deprived him of a fair trial. We affirm.
I
The charge against Fernandez arose out of a traffic stop conducted by police in Franklin, Wisconsin (a Milwaukee suburb) on November 20, 2016. Fernandez was sitting in the front passenger seat of a black Chevrolet Caprice, his friend Adam Voecks was driving, and Voecks' fiancée Valerie Stramowski was in the back seat.…
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