UNITED STATES v. SILVA

No. 79-5197.

745 F.2d 840 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Daniel Nelson SILVA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. McCann, Charleston, S.C., for appellant.

Susan Z. Hitt, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C. (Henry Dargan McMaster, U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., Samuel K. Morgan, Jr., Lexington, S.C., Third Year Law Student on brief), for appellee.

Before HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and BULLOCK, District Judge.


BULLOCK, District Judge:

Appellant Silva was convicted of violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(h), possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and 18 U.S.C. § 1071, harboring and concealing a fugitive. On appeal, Silva makes numerous evidentiary and procedural challenges.

Factual Statement

On November 18, 1978, Robert Fieldmore Lewis, a convicted murderer, escaped from a Florida penitentiary...

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