Source: http://openjurist.org/444/f2d/1037
Timestamp: 2014-03-07 15:59:04
Document Index: 80474964

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 5801', '§ 922', '§ 5841', '§ 5812', '§ 5842', '§ 922']

444 F2d 1037 United States v. A Lauchli | OpenJurist
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444 F2d 1037 United States v. A Lauchli 444 F.2d 1037
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.Richard A. LAUCHLI, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.
Richard Albert Lauchli, Jr., Robert Popper, Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.
Donald B. Mackay, U. S. Atty., Frank J. Violanti, U. S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., for appellee.
Before CUMMINGS, KERNER and STEVENS, Circuit Judges.
Defendant-appellant, Richard A. Lauchli, Jr., was convicted by a jury on fifteen counts of an indictment alleging violations of the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act. The fifteen offenses consisted of one count for dealing in firearms without a license (26 U. S.C. §§ 5801, 5802 and 5861(a)), one count for dealing in firearms without registering with the Internal Revenue Service (18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a) (1) and 923(a)), seven counts for possessing firearms not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (26 U.S.C. §§ 5841 and 5861), three counts for illegally transferring firearms (26 U.S.C. §§ 5812(a) (1)-(6), 5845(a) and 5861), two counts of possessing firearms not bearing serial numbers (26 U.S.C. §§ 5842(b) and 5842(c)), and one count for dealing in firearms with a non-resident of the state in which he resided (18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a) (5) and 923). As a result of these convictions, Lauchli was sentenced to a twelve-year term to run concurrently with an eight-year sentence imposed in another criminal matter. See United States v. Lauchli, 371 F.2d 303 (7th Cir. 1966).
Defendant contends that all convictions must be set aside as violative of his privilege against self-incrimination. Primary reliance is placed on Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85, 88 S.Ct. 722, 19 L.Ed.2d 923 (1968), which held that invocation of the privilege presented a complete defense to prosecutions under the National and Federal Firearms Acts then in effect. However, following that decision, Congress revised the Acts with the intention of eliminating the infirmities outlined in Haynes.1 The Supreme Court in United States v. Freed, 401 U. S. 601, 91 S.Ct. 1112, 28 L.Ed.2d 356 (1971), has recently approved certain provisions of the amended Acts. As noted by Mr. Justice Douglas in Freed, important changes in the statutory complex and in the mode of enforcement have occurred: