United States v. George L. Bradley

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

George Bradley was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(h)(1), which makes unlawful the receipt of a firearm by one previously convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year. On appeal, Bradley contends that the five-year suspended sentence entered in his conviction should be reversed because the firearm found in his possession, and later introduced over objection at trial, was seized in the course of an unlawful search. Because we agree that the warrantless search of defendant’s room by his parole officer was in violation of rights secured to…