United States Fourth Circuit

Conviction of kidnapping,18 U.S.C. section 1201(a)(1), interstate domestic violence, sections 2261(a)(2) and (b)(4), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, section 924(c), is affirmed where: 1) defense counsel's performance was not ineffective in opening the door to testimony by a government expert, nor in failing to object to the district court's decision to keep the jury late one evening; and 2) the district court did not erred by admitting prior acts evidence and in requiring defendant to register as a sex-offender.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/05/05

Judges

• DIAZ

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel