COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
United States – Appellant
Versus
Andre Michael Dubois – Respondent
[PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit
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No. 22-10829 ____________________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus ANDRE MICHAEL DUBOIS, a.k.a. Larry Davis, a.k.a. Andre Dubois,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia D.C. Docket No. 1:20-cr-00305-WMR-JKL-1 USCA11 Case: 22-10829 Document: 62-1 Date Filed: 03/05/2024 Page: 2 of 45
2 Opinion of the Court 22-10829
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Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and ROSENBAUM and ABUDU,
Circuit Judges.
WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge:
This appeal by Andre Dubois, a federal prisoner, of his con-
victions and sentence for three federal firearm offenses requires us
to answer five questions. First, did New York State Rif le & Pistol As-
sociation v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022), which held that the Second
Amendment protects a right to bear arms outside the home, abro-
gate our precedent upholding the felon-in-possession ban? See 18
U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); United States v. Rozier,
22-10829 Opinion of the Court 3
I. BACKGROUND In 2018, Andre Dubois entered an Express Copy Print & Ship store in Suwanee, Georgia, and attempted to ship a box containing firearms to the Commonwealth of Dominica. Federal officials seized the shipment and charged Dubois with three counts: at- tempting to smuggle firearms out of the United States, see 18 U.S.C. § 554; delivering firearms to a common carrier for shipment without written notice, see id. § 922(e); and possessing a firearm as a felon, see id. § 922(g)(1). The only factual dispute at trial was whether Dubois knew that the box he tried to ship contained fire- arms—an element of all three charges. Dubois stipulated that he was the customer who delivered the package and that he knew that he was a felon when he did so. At trial, the prosecution presented evidence that on April 23, 2018, a car par
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