U.S. v. JOOST

No. 97-1519.

133 F.3d 125 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert M. JOOST, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Dimitri, by appointment of the court, Providence, RI, with whom Robert M. Joost, pro se, was on brief, for appellant.

Margaret R. Curran, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, and Kenneth P. Madden, Assistant United States Attorney, Providence, RI, were on brief, for the United States.

Before SELYA, STAHL and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal marks our second encounter with the government's accusation that defendant-appellant Robert M. Joost, a previously convicted felon, illegally possessed a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).1 A panel of this court erased Joost's initial conviction on this charge because the trial court failed to give an entrapment instruction. See United States v. Joost, 92 F.3d 7...

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