United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a felony are affirmed over defendant's primary claim that the district court should have considered the disparities between the federal and state penalties for his offense of conviction when determining the sentence to be imposed upon him.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/10/2007
• Published 10/10/2007

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:, Before: MESKILL, CABRANES, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Charles F. Willson, Nevins & Nevins, Hartford, CT, (Alan M. Nelson, Lake Success, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant., David B. Massey, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney, Karl Metzner, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.