U.S. v. BURLESON

No. 15-6589.

815 F.3d 170 (2016)

United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arnold Paul BURLESON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: March 8, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kevin F. King , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Harry L. Hobgood , Office of the United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Robert A. Long, Jr. , Gregory L. Halperin , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Ripley Rand , United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Reversed, vacated, and remanded by published opinion. Judge HARRIS wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Senior Judge DAVIS joined.


Arnold Paul Burleson was convicted of several North Carolina felony offenses between 1964 and 1985. Based on those convictions, he pled guilty in 2013 to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), and was sentenced to a fifteen-year mandatory minimum...

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