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UNITED STATES v. PAPPAS

No. 78-1474.

600 F.2d 300 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. George Anthony PAPPAS, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 14, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot D. Lobel, Asst. U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom Edward F. Harrington, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.

Ann Lambert Greenblatt, Boston, Mass., with whom Silverglate, Shapiro & Gertner, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges, and GIGNOUX, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

George Pappas was charged in the district court with having violated a federal firearms law, 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(3), (h)(1). The violations alleged stemmed from a federal agent's discovery of a firearm during a search of Pappas' car after the car had been seized pursuant to a forfeiture statute, 21 U.S.C. § 881(b)(4).1 The district court granted Pappas' motion to suppress the firearm. This...

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