Legal Opinion
United States v. Brett Wayne Wofford
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 21, 1997No. 96-10008PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether the judge in a felon-in-possession trial properly barred the defendant from presenting a justification defense to the jury and whether a California conviction for grand theft from a person is a violent felony for mandatory minimum sentencing purposes.
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Wofford was convicted in 1976 for robbery, in 1979 for grand theft from a person, and in 1982 for assault. As a felon, he was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition. Nonetheless, when Wofford was arrested at his mother’s house where he was living in 1995, a police search uncovered a…
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