By: Derek Hawkins//November 29, 2016//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Damian Patrick
Case No.: 15-2443
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges
Focus: Sentencing
Police in Wisconsin arrested Damian Patrick while he was in a car on a public street and found him armed. That led to this federal prosecution, be‐ cause Patrick’s criminal record made it unlawful for him to possess firearms. 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1). The district court denied his motion to keep the gun out of evidence. 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1421 (E.D. Wis. Jan. 7, 2015), approving a magistrate judge’s recommendation, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179522 (E.D. Wis. Sept. 30, 2014). Patrick pleaded guilty but reserved the opportunity to contest the validity of his arrest, and thus the validity of the gun’s seizure. He now appeals from the 57‐month sentence he received.
Affirmed