Legal Opinion
United States v. William v. Toney
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 1994No. 93-2809PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
A jury found William Toney guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g), 924(a)(2), and the court sentenced him to three hundred and ten months in prison. On appeal, Toney challenges the jury instruction on coercion and the admission under Fed.R.Evid. 609(a) of his two prior convictions. We affirm.
I. Facts
On August 29, 1992, despondent and possibly contemplating suicide, Julie Shults went alone to the De-Rail’s tavern in Galesburg, Illinois. She was soon joined by the defendant, William Toney. Sometime thereafter, an officer of the Galesburg…
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