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U.S. v. ATKINS

No. 87-5179.

872 F.2d 94 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William R. ATKINS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Eric O'Brian, Jr. (Newman T. Halvorson, Jr., Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., on brief) for defendant-appellant.

William Graham Otis, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Henry E. Hudson, U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., on brief) for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge, and HARVEY, Chief United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

The case is not complicated insofar as the facts are concerned, they having been stipulated. The defendant, William Roy Atkins, served in the United States Army from 1963 to 1972 at which time he was honorably discharged after three tours of duty in Vietnam.

Atkins was convicted in 1981 by the Crown Court of Croyden, England, of unlawful possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. Sentenced to a term of 5 years incarceration...

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