UNITED STATES v. GILES

No. 80-3584 Summary Calendar.

640 F.2d 621 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alphonse GILES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

March 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Unsworth, Jr., New Orleans, La. (Court-appointed), for defendant-appellant.

Robert J. Boitmann, W. Glenn Burns, Asst. U. S. Attys., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEE, RUBIN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Alphonse Giles challenges the constitutionality of the federal statute under which he was convicted in the court below — 18 U.S.C. § 922(h)(1) (1976). Because we find no merit in either of Giles' asserted grounds for the statute's unconstitutionality, we affirm his conviction.

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND LEADING TO THIS APPEAL

On June 22, 1977, Giles pleaded guilty in Louisiana state court to charges...

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