United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's drug and firearm conviction and sentence are affirmed where 18 U.S.C. section 922(g)(1) does not require an individual showing of an effect on interstate commerce so long as the firearm at issue has traveled across state lines in the past.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2009
• Published 04/29/2009

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, BALDOCK, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy J. Henry, Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Kansas, Wichita, KS, for Defendant-Appellant., Jared S. Maag, Office of the United States Attorney (Marietta Parker, Acting United States Attorney, D. Blair Watson, Assistant United States Attorney, on the briefs), District of Kansas, Wichita, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.