U.S. v. ALLMAN

No. 02-1859.

336 F.3d 555 (2003)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas ALLMAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Getter (argued), Office of the U.S. Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Richard H. McLeese (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a prohibited weapon (an M-16 rifle), and related crimes, and was sentenced to 144 months in prison, but in his plea reserved the right to appeal from the denial of his motion to suppress.

An employee in the postal service's Phoenix, Arizona airmail center noticed a package from which protruded an object that he recognized as the "pivot pin" of an M-16. An army veteran, he had become intimately...

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