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U.S. v. NASON

No. 01-1440.

269 F.3d 10 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert E. NASON, Jr., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 19, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Baldacci, for appellant.

F. Mark Terison, Senior Litigation Counsel, with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and DOUMAR, Senior District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to resolve an interpretive schism that has divided the district courts. This schism involves the interplay between a state assault statute and a federal law barring misdemeanants who have committed crimes of domestic violence from possessing firearms. The crux of the controversy is whether "offensive physical contact," one of the two variants of assault featured in Maine's general-purpose assault statute, necessarily involves...

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