Legal Opinion

United States v. Starks, Jr.

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided June 28, 2017No. 15-2365PPublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

This case makes its second appearance on our docket. The first appeal followed the conviction of Foster Starks, Jr. for possessing a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). We vacated that conviction because the district court erred in finding that Starks lacked standing to challenge the lawfulness of a traffic stop that led to his arrest and the discovery of a gun and ammunition in a car he was driving. See United States v. Starks (Starks I), 769 F.3d 83, 88-90 (1st Cir. 2014). On remand, the district court adjudicated Starks’s challenge to the traffic stop on…

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