Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Middleton v. Murphy, Warden

Middleton v. Murphy, Warden, 510 U.S. 1014 (1993)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1993-12-06
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • rights “reinstated automatically by operation of law ... are no less ‘restored’ than are such rights that have been resurrected by an ‘affirmative act of the state’ ”
  • suspect's nonconiplianee with order to get to ground justified handcuffing and frisk for weapons
  • hold ing that Texas’ failure to deny a non-violent felon the right to possess firearms is not the “functional equivalent” of restoring her civil rights within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(20)

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510 U.S. 1014

Middleton
v.
Murphy, Warden.

No. 93-5971.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 6, 1993.

1

Appeal from the C. A. 7th Cir.

2

Certiorari denied. Reported below: 996 F. 2d 1219.