UNITED STATES v. DIAZ

No. 923, Docket 82-1377.

712 F.2d 36 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Angel DIAZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard N. Palmer, Asst. U.S. Atty., D. Conn., Hartford, Conn. (Alan H. Nevas, U.S. Atty., D. Conn., New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas G. Dennis, Federal Public Defender, Hartford, Conn., for defendant-appellant.

Before PIERCE, WINTER and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Once again we are confronted with a problem of interpreting 18 U.S.C.App. § 1202 (1976), a hastily enacted statute, see Lewis v. United States, 445 U.S. 55, 62-63, 100 S.Ct. 915, 919 (1980); Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563, 567, 97 S.Ct. 1963, 1965, 52 L.Ed.2d 582 (1977); United States v. Bass,<...

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