UNITED STATES v. THORNTON

No. 83-3015.

710 F.2d 513 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joe Clark THORNTON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Derbidge, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boise, Idaho, for plaintiff-appellee.

Kenneth O. Kreis, Atty. at Law, Boise, Idaho, for defendant-appellant.

Before WRIGHT, CHOY, and NELSON, Circuit Judges.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

The issues in this appeal of a federal firearms conviction are (1) whether Thornton's arrest and the seizure of the gun violated the Fourth Amendment, (2) whether admission of a government form evidencing nonregistration was reversible error, and (3) whether the district court's order that the sentences run consecutively to a state sentence was beyond its authority.

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