United States Tenth Circuit

A conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon is affirmed over claims of erroneous denial of a suppression motion involving: 1) a claim that the trial court improperly placed the burden on him to show the "no-knock" warrant was invalid; and 2) a claim that a "no-knock" warrant was invalid because the state judge relied solely on the presence of firearms as the reason for the warrant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2006
• Published 06/22/2006

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, BALDOCK, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brent I. Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney (Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Wichita, Kansas, for Plaintiff-Appellee., John K. Henderson, Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, Wichita, Kansas, for Defendant-Appellant.