United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for possession of an unregistered firearm is vacated where the district court erred in accepting defendant's conditional guilty plea since he attempted to preserve for appellate review a non-case-dispositive pretrial issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2004
• Published 12/17/2004

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and Henry E. HUDSON, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Stephen Porter Halbrook, Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellant.  Robert Lucas Hobbs, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Robert M. Galumbeck, Michael L. Dennis, Dudley, Galumbeck, Dennis & Kegley, Tazewell, Virginia, for Appellant.  John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee.