United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for firearms possession is affirmed where: 1) the district court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the evidence seized during the pat-frisk, as the officers possessed the reasonable suspicion necessary to conduct a Terry stop of defendant and the search was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the stop; and 2) defendant's sentence was proper as one of his prior convictions qualified as a predicate under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2009
• Published 04/21/2009

Judges

• STAHL, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, STAHL, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter H. Underhill, by Appointment of the Court, for appellant., Samnang Am on brief pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa M. Asiaf, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.