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UNITED STATES v. WILSON

No. 71-1764.

479 F.2d 936 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thurlester WILSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Cohn, E. St. Louis, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Henry A. Schwarz, U. S. Atty., Jack A. Strellis, Asst. U. S. Atty., E. St. Louis, Ill., Michael L. Levinson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Danville, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge, and KILEY, FAIRCHILD, CUMMINGS, PELL, STEVENS and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

Thurlester Wilson appeals from his conviction for violating 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d), 5871, possession of an unregistered firearm. The principal issue raised in this appeal is "whether the sawed-off shotgun which was the basis for the indictment and which was found by police officers during a search for which a warrant had been procured, was tainted by previous police action and conduct which uncovered evidence forming the probable cause...

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