United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession conviction and sentence are affirmed where: 1) 18 U.S.C. section 922(g)(1) is constitutional, even if a felon possesses a firearm purely for self-defense; and 2) it was a sufficient basis for defendant's sentence that the district judge, at sentencing, found that defendant had in fact been convicted of three or more prior serious drug offenses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/04/2010
• Published 03/04/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before WILSON and COX, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel