United States v. Edgar Cherry Gant

How courts have described this case

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• noting that we have “recognize[d] the general availability of common-law defenses to such a charge”
• concluding the defendant had failed to show that he had no alternative to violating the law because “[t]he most obvious legal remedy that [the defendant] failed to pursue was simply to call the police”
• affrming conviction of a business owner under § 922(g) predecessor statute for briefy possessing a frearm to ward off suspected robbers
• denying the duress defense because defendant did not call the police when he had an opportunity to do so
• affirming convic- tion of a business owner under §922(g) predecessor statute for briefly possessing a firearm to ward off suspected rob- bers
• affirming convic- tion of a business owner under §922(g) predecessor statute for briefly possessing a firearm to ward off suspected rob- bers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).