United States Fifth Circuit

Persons convicted of a felony are still considered convicted felons even after they successfully complete community supervision and thus subject to 18 USC 922(g)(1), which prohibits convicted felons from possessing firearms in and affecting interstate commerce.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2001
• Published 08/28/2001

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine L. Haden, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roland E. Dahlin, II, Fed. Pub. Def., Marjorie A. Meyers, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.