United States Seventh Circuit

A felon in possession of a firearm conviction is affirmed, as 1) an initial encounter between car occupants and a police officer was consensual, 2) reasonable suspicion existed for an investigatory stop, and 3) jury instruction that momentary possession was sufficient to convict was not an abuse of discretion.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2002
• Decided 02/21/2003
• Published 02/21/2003

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Kirsch, II (Argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Hammond, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Daniel L. Toomey, Jerome T. Flynn (Argued), Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., Hammond, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.