United States Second Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is affirmed over his claims of erroneous denial of a motion to suppress evidence where a trooper did not offend the Fourth Amendment by approaching a principal entrance to defendant's home using a route that other visitors could be expected to take .

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2006
• Published 02/10/2006

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER Jr., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, CALABRESI and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth D. Mann, Assistant Federal Public Defender (Alexander Bunin, Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Northern New York and Vermont, on the brief), Burlington, VT, for Defendant-Appellant., Paul J. Van De Graaf, Assistant United States Attorney (David V. Kirby, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, on the brief), Burlington, VT, for Appellee.