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Type
Opinion
Filed
May 15, 2019
Case
United States v. Rehelio Trant
Case status
Decided

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SMITH, Chief Judge. One evening on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands (the V.I.), a minor dispute between two men over the use of a can opener escalated into each man menacingly showing the other his pistol. After law enforcement officers looked into these events, a federal grand jury charged one of them, Rehelio Trant, with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm in vio…

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