United States v. Hall

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JUSTICE, District Judge.

Defendant Alvin Hall is charged pursuant to 18 U.S.C. sections 922(h), 924(a), and 26 U.S.C. sections 5861(d), (f), (i), and 5871, with receiving and possessing an illegal firearm, namely, a shotgun, seized by deputies of the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department and turned over by them to an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). The defendant has moved to suppress the shotgun as the fruit of an illegal arrest. Before the merits of the defendant’s claim are addressed, a brief sketch of the circumstances leading to the discovery…