Description: Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a
firearm after a felony conviction in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

In 2018, Marcus Delars Branson was convicted of bank robbery in Texas and sentenced to a thirty-seven-month term of imprisonment to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Branson was released in 2020, and a condition of his supervised release was that he not possess a gun. In March 2023—months before his supervised release term was up—a
United States Probation Officer visited Branson’s apartment and found two firearms. Branson was indicted on one count of possession of a firearm by a person who has previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year—a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

Branson moved to dismiss the indictment, lodging facial and asapplied challenges under the Second Amendment in light of Bruen. The district court denied the motion to dismiss.

Outcome: Branson thereafter pled guilty and was sentenced to a forty-one-month term of imprisonment, to run consecutively to his revocation sentence of twenty-four-months’ imprisonment, followed by a three-year term of supervised release that would run concurrently with the revocation term of supervised release.

Affirmed

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