United States Sixth Circuit

A sentence to five years' probation, including house arrest for the first year of probation, for possessing an unregistered firearm having a barrel length of less than eighteen inches is affirmed over the government's challenge as the sentence was both substantively and procedurally reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2007
• Published 09/17/2007

Judges

• Before:  SILER, MOORE, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Tracee J. Plowell, Assistant United States Attorney, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Kim A. Tollison, Federal Defender Services, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Tracee J. Plowell, Assistant United States Attorney, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Kim A. Tollison, Federal Defender Services, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.