U.S. v. BALDE

Docket No. 17-3337-cr August Term, 2018.

943 F.3d 73 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Souleymane BALDE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: November 13, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew B. Larsen , Federal Defenders of New York, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Souleymane Balde.

Elinor Tarlow , Assistant United States Attorney ( Anna M. Skotko , Kiersten Fletcher , on the brief), for Geoffrey S. Berman , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY.

Before: Hall and Lynch, Circuit Judges, and Gardephe, District Judge.


Souleymane Balde pled guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by "an alien ... [who] is illegally or unlawfully in the United States," in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5)(A) and 924(a)(2). We initially upheld his conviction, rejecting Balde's invitation to interpret "in" to mean "entered into" as the...

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