United States Fifth Circuit

Castillo v. U.S., 530 U.S. 120 (2000), concerned with proof that a firearm was a machine gun, announced a new procedural rule that does not apply retroactively on collateral review under Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989).

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2003
• Published 04/04/2003

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, SMITH and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Renata Ann Gowie (argued) and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., John Richard Donahue (argued), Law Office of John Donahue, Waco, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.