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Seventh Circuit approves teaching felons a lesson about where they keep illegal firearms

By Douglas A. Berman

The Seventh Circuit returns from a long weekend with three published sentencing opinions, and the most intriguing of the bunch is US v. Wise, No. 08-2794 (7th Cir. Feb. 17, 2009) (available here). Here is how the opinion starts: It is an event almost too painful to recount: a four-year-old discharged a gun he found lying around the house, killing his two-year-old cousin.  The inaptly named Anthony Wise is the person who left the loaded gun on a window ledge behind a computer.  As it turns out, Wise was even extra unwise because he was a convicted felon who could not legally possess a gun.  As a result of all this, Wise was charged and convicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).