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U.S. v. YOUNG

No. 13-5714.

766 F.3d 621 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward L. YOUNG, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 11, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Douglas A. Berman , The Ohio State University Moritz College Of Law, Columbus, Ohio, for Amicus Curiae. Christopher T. Varner , Evans Harrison Hackett PLLC, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Appellant. Christopher D. Poole , United States Attorney's Office, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Christopher T. Varner , Evans Harrison Hackett PLLC, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Appellant. Christopher D. Poole , United States Attorney's Office, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Appellee. Douglas A. Berman , The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, Candace C. Crouse , Pinales Stachler Young Burrell & Crouse Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati, Ohio for Amicus Curiae.

The court delivered a PER CURIAM opinion. STRANCH, J. (pp. 630-34), delivered a separate concurring opinion.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Edward Young received a mandatory fifteen-year prison sentence for the crime of possessing seven shotgun shells in a drawer. He came into possession of the shells while helping a neighbor sell her late husband's possessions. When he eventually discovered them, he did not realize that his legal disability against possessing firearms-resulting from felonies committed some twenty years earlier — extended to ammunition. See...

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