United States First Circuit

Conviction for making a false statement to a firearms dealer during an attempt to purchase firearm is affirmed over claims that: 1) the trial judge erred in defining the term "knowingly", by refusing to give an explicit willful blindness instruction; and 2) the trial judge erroneously admitted evidence that defendant was arrested for violating a protective order entered against him three weeks before denying the existence of such an order on a federal firearms form.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/28/2008
• Published 04/28/2008

Judges

• BESOSA, District Judge., Before HOWARD, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and BESOSA, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey Langholtz, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant United States Attorney, Appellate Chief, with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney was on brief for appellee.