United States Ninth Circuit

With regards to the crime of possession of a firearm by a person "illegally or unlawfully in the United States," an alien's physical presence in a port of entry does not satisfy the element of the crime of being illegally or unlawfully in the United States.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/12/2006
• Decided 02/21/2006
• Published 02/21/2006

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge., Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ALFRED T. GOODWIN and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremy D. Warren, San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Anne Kristina Perry, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.