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· 4/13/1976

United States v. Armand W. Samson

Citations

  • 533 F.2d 721
  • 1976 U.S. App. LEXIS 11821

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that prohibition against receiving firearms in commerce after having \been convicted by a court . . . of a felony\ does not require final predicate conviction
  • calling firearm dispossession \slight compared with the gravity of the public interest sought to be protected\
  • “[I]f the disability imposed by the statute is sufficiently serious to the defendant, it might be appropriate to [adopt a] more restricted meaning [of the phrase ‘convicted by a court’].”

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Judges: Aldrich, McEntee, Campbell

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