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U.S. v. HALL

No. 91-5362.

972 F.2d 67 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John Robert HALL, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1992.

As Amended August 12, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Ernest Booth, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Robert H. Edmunds, Jr., U.S. Atty., Michael F. Joseph, Asst. U.S. Atty., Greensboro, N.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Cynthia Sax Bland, Holmes & McLaurin, Pittsboro, N.C. (R. Edward McLaurin, Jr., Holmes & McLaurin, Pittsboro, N.C., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, SPROUSE, and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we are called upon to interpret the statutory definition of "short-barreled shotgun," found at 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(6), to determine whether Hall, convicted of a drug trafficking offense and of using a firearm in the commission of that offense, should have his sentence enhanced for using a short-barreled shotgun. The district court concluded that the statutory definition of short-barreled shotgun was ambiguous...

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