United States Fourth Circuit

A person convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, whose civil rights were never revoked or restored under state law, cannot take advantage of the restoration exception of 18 U.S.C. section 921(a)(33)(B)(ii), under the Gun Control Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2003
• Published 03/19/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  John Herman Hare, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Stacey Denise Haynes, Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.