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953587P.pdf 07/03/1996 United States v. Vincent L. Lomax
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 95-3587
Western District of Missouri
Criminal law - No error in refusing to allow justification or legal
ignorance defense; legal justification is no defense to crime of felon in
possession of a firearm and defendant knowingly possessed weapon; sidebar
conference may have been overheard, but did not rise to level of
plain error and would not have influenced jury.