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U.S. v. SMITH

No. 88-2182.

899 F.2d 116 (1990)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Frederick A. SMITH, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry M. Haight, with whom Buckley, Haight, Muldoon, Jubinville & Gilligan, Milton, Mass., and Dana Alan Curham, were on brief, for appellant.

Martin F. Murphy, Asst. U.S. Atty., and Wayne A. Budd, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., on brief, for appellee.

Before BREYER and CYR, Circuit Judges, and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

BREYER, Circuit Judge.

Frederick Smith appeals his conviction for violating the federal law that prohibits a previously convicted felon from possessing a firearm. See 18 U.S.C.App. § 1202(a) (repealed 1986, current version at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)). The primary evidence against him consisted of five rifles and two revolvers that state police officers said they found at his home while they were searching that home for drugs. Smith concedes that the...

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