United States First Circuit

Conviction for possession of a firearm with an altered serial number is affirmed where a reasonable jury could easily conclude that this pistol had been altered so as to make it appreciably more difficult to read the serial number.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/20/2002
• Published 09/20/2002

Judges

• BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas G. Briody, by appointment of the court, for appellant., Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, and Mary E. Rogers, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for the United States.