U.S. v. GILLEYLEN

No. 95-2819.

81 F.3d 70 (1996)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lester O'Neal GILLEYLEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Carr, Deidre Durborow (argued), Office of U.S. Atty., Benton, IL, for U.S.

Melissa A. Day, Andrea Smith (argued), Office of Federal Public Defender, Benton, IL, for Lester Oneal Gilleylen.

Before CUMMINGS, RIPPLE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

July 9, 1994, was not a good day for Lester O'Neal Gilleylen. To start with, police in Carbondale, Illinois, stopped his 1995 Mustang for a traffic violation. After the stop, a loaded semi-automatic pistol was discovered on the floor of the car. Trumping these events, the police discovered that Gilleylen (he first told the police his name was "Gilley" but later changed that to "Gillen") had a conviction for burglary, a felony, on his...

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