United States DC Circuit

A conviction for possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) whether evidence of the gun and the drugs, which U.S. Marshals discovered while executing a warrant for defendant's arrest in connection with another charge, should be suppressed; and 2) the admissibility of prior convictions for possession of a firearm and selling crack cocaine.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2008
• Decided 05/27/2008
• Published 05/27/2008

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, BROWN, and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James W. Beane, Jr., appointed by the court, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stratton C. Strand, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With him on the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorneys.