UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 01-4800
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
WILLIAM FERRIS WHITE, a/k/a William Ferry
White,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Virginia, at Alexandria. Claude M. Hilton, Chief District
Judge. (CR-01-106-A)
Submitted: March 21, 2002 Decided: March 27, 2002
Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Paul P. Vangellow, PAUL P. VANGELLOW, P.C., Falls Church, Virginia,
for Appellant. Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Michael E.
Rich, Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
In this appeal, William White, sentenced to thirty-seven
months’ imprisonment following his conditional guilty plea to one
count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, see 18 U.S.C.A.
§ 922(g)(1) (West 2000), challenges only the district court’s
denial of his motion to dismiss his indictment for lack of
jurisdiction. In that motion, White argued the interstate commerce
requirement of § 922(g) could not be satisfied by simply possessing
a firearm that had traveled in interstate commerce. However,
because this theory has been rejected, see Scarborough v. United
States, 431 U.S. 563, 575 (1977); United States v. Wells, 98 F.3d
808, 811 (4th Cir. 1996), we find the district court properly
denied White’s motion. Accordingly, we affirm White’s conviction
and sentence and dispense with oral argument because the facts and
legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before
the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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