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U.S. v. FORTES

No. 96-1981.

141 F.3d 1 (1998)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Edwin FORTES, aka Charles Brookshire, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1998.

As Modified April 28, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Godfrey, Hingham, MA, by appointment of the Court, for appellant.

Timothy Q. Feeley, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney and Antoinette E.M. Leoney, Assistant United States Attorney, Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, Senior District Judge.

POLLAK, Senior District Judge.

This appeal challenges the conviction and the subsequent sentence of Edwin Fortes (a.k.a. Charles Brookshire). A four-count indictment, handed up on December 6, 1995, charged that on January 13, 1994 Fortes (1) was a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)); (2) possessed a firearm with an obliterated serial number (18 U.S.C. § 922(k)); (3) possessed cocaine with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C...

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