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U.S. v. CHAMBERLAIN

No. 98-1324.

159 F.3d 656 (1998)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Richard W. CHAMBERLAIN, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey M. Silverstein, with whom Billings & Silverstein was on brief for appellant.

Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, and James L. McCarthy, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.

CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Richard Chamberlain appeals from his conviction in the United States District Court for the District of Maine on one count of possession of a firearm pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4), which makes it unlawful for any person who has been "committed to a mental institution" to possess any firearm in interstate commerce. Under Maine law, Chamberlain had earlier been involuntarily admitted for five days, on an emergency basis, to a...

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