United States v. Harry Haddad

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• federal gun laws are not “an encroachment on, but rather a complement to, state regulation”
• knowledge is not an element of crime of receipt by a convicted felon of a firearm that has been shipped or transported in interstate commerce, 18 U.S.C. § 922(h) (1976)
• guest “ejected” for good cause, based on conduct including intoxication, disorderly conduct, and carrying gun in hotel; guest had no reasonable expectation of privacy in room
• defendant checked out of room after being ejected with his knowledge, telling police he did not want any belongings he might have left behind; search of room occurred thereafter
• abandonment of hotel room and belongings in it
• abandonment of hotel room and belongings in it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).