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Lewis v. US

In 1977 Lewis was charged with receiving and possessing a firearm. In Virginia, Title VII of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 bans possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Lewis claimed his latest conviction violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments because he had no counsel present during his 1961 trial for breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor which resulted in a felony conviction. The court upheld Lewis' conviction saying that there are certain processes that felons can go through to re-obtain the right to carry a weapon such as, going though the process to get a pardon or going through the appropriate processes to overturn the previous conviction. They also said any felony conviction, even an invalid one, can prohibit the possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndsup.html http://constitution.org/ussc/445-055a.htm