United States First Circuit

Conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon is vacated and remanded where the court's examination of the officers' reasonable suspicion for the search that produced the firearm was tainted by legal error that is impermissible in Fourth Amendment analysis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2007
• Published 05/04/2007

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles W. Rankin, with whom Michelle Menken and Rankin & Sultan were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randall E. Kromm, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.