United States v. Pollock, No. 13-2764 (7th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePollock was convicted of aggravated stalking and was prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition. After an alleged attack on his next girlfriend, he was charged with battery, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated sexual assault; he was later acquitted. While in jail, Pollock called a friend and told him to remove the guns from Pollock’s car. The call was monitored. The friend led police to the nine guns, which had been moved to Pollock’s mother’s home. Convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, and attempted witness tampering, Pollock was sentenced to 240 months in prison, finding that Pollock’s threat of killing himself and his girlfriend with one of the guns mad the possession “in connection with” aggravated sexual abuse. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting challenges to a jury instruction, to certain remarks made by the prosecutor, and to the below-guidelines sentence.
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