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U.S. v. Loggins

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Aug 18, 2003
72 F. App'x 705 (9th Cir. 2003)

Opinion


72 Fed.Appx. 705 (9th Cir. 2003) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff--Appellee, v. Wallace Lee LOGGINS, Defendant--Appellant. No. 02-10642. D.C. No. CR-01-00406-MJJ. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. August 18, 2003

Submitted August 12, 2003.

This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

NOT FOR PUBLICATION. (See Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 36-3)

Defendant was convicted by bench trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Martin J. Jenkins, J., of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals held that: (1) evidence that gun was sold by manufacturer in one state to a distributor in another state was sufficient to satisfy jurisdictional "in or affecting commerce" element required for conviction, and (2) evidence that serial number on gun matched the serial number on another state's invoice was sufficient to support finding that subject gun moved in interstate commerce, as required for conviction, despite defendant's claim that he received the gun in a private non-commercial manner.

Affirmed.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Martin J. Jenkins, District Judge, Presiding.

Before HALL, O'SCANNLAIN, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

MEMORANDUM

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as may be provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

Wallace Lee Loggins appeals his bench trial conviction for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Loggins contends that the government failed to establish the jurisdictional

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"in or affecting commerce" element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court found that the gun was sold by its Texas manufacturer to a distributor in California in 1966.

We reject Loggins' jurisdictional argument. We have held that the felon in possession statute, 18 U.S. G. § 922(g)(1), "require[s] only 'the minimal [jurisdictional] nexus that the firearm have been, at some time, in interstate commerce.' " United States v. Hanna, 55 F.3d 1456, 1462 (9th Cir.1995) (quoting Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563, 575, 97 S.Ct. 1963, 52 L.Ed.2d 582 (1977)); see also United States v. Casterline, 103 F.3d 76, 77 (9th Cir.1996). Nothing in the Supreme Court's recent Commerce Clause jurisprudence undermines Hanna. United States v. Rousseau, 257 F.3d 925, 932 (9th Cir.2001); United States v. Davis, 242 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir.2001).

Loggins also contends that § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to him. This argument is foreclosed by our decision in United States v. Rousseau, 257 F.3d at 932-33.

Loggins finally contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the district court's finding that the subject gun moved in interstate commerce because he received the gun in a private non-commercial manner. The evidence that the serial number on the gun matched the serial number on the Texas invoice is sufficient to support the verdict. See United States v. Polanco, 93 F.3d 555, 563 (9th Cir.1996); Hanna, 55 F.3d at 1462.

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

U.S. v. Loggins

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Aug 18, 2003
72 F. App'x 705 (9th Cir. 2003)
Case details for

U.S. v. Loggins

Case Details

Full title:UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff--Appellee, v. Wallace Lee LOGGINS…

Court:United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Aug 18, 2003

Citations

72 F. App'x 705 (9th Cir. 2003)