United States Fifth Circuit

A conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed over challenges to the district court's admission of certain evidence and application of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). Defendant's California conviction for grand theft from a person in violation of section 487(2) of the California Penal Code was a "violent felony" as defined in 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2008
• Published 01/30/2008

Judges

• OWEN, Circuit Judge:, Before DeMOSS, DENNIS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Mark Randolph Stelmach, Asst. U.S. Attys., San Antonio, TX, for U.S., Stephen M. Orr, Orr & Olavson, Austin, TX, for Hawley.