United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm as a previously convicted felon is affirmed where: 1) the evidence was sufficient to establish that he knowingly possessed the firearm at issue; 2) there was no abuse of discretion in a refusal to allow him to introduce videotaped interviews to impeach certain witnesses for the prosecution; 3) his prior conviction for a walkaway escape from a community work center qualified as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA); and 4) a finding that he possessed the firearm in connection with another felony offense was amply supported.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2007
• Published 09/06/2007

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, HANSEN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Travis Poindexter, Asst. Fed. Public Defender, Kansas City, MO, argued (Raymond C. Conrad, Jr., Fed. Public Defender, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Philip M. Koppe, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, argued (John F. Wood, U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.