United States Eighth Circuit

Abuse perpetrated on a live-in girlfriend is domestic abuse committed -by a person similarly situated to a spouse- for purposes of statutes criminalizing being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and defining a "crime of domestic violence."

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2006
• Published 05/23/2006

Judges

• RILEY, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, BRIGHT, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wallace L. Taylor, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jason T. Griess, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Des Moines, IA, for appellee.