In her first opinion as a visiting judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has ruled that a conviction in Puerto Rico is a valid predicate for a charge of illegally possessing a gun as a felon.
O’Connor, who was joined by 3rd Circuit Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica and Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, found that the appeal by Marco Laboy-Torres in United States v. Laboy-Torres presented a question of first impression in the courts of appeals.
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