United States v. Keith, No. 10-3005 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. 924(e)(1), and appealed his sentence of 180 months imprisonment as an unarmed career criminal. At issue was whether the district court properly counted defendant's prior felony convictions as predicate offenses within the meaning of the ACCA. The court held that the district court properly counted defendant's prior felony convictions where his domestic assault conviction qualified as a violent felony and was a predicate offense and where his drug convictions were two, separate predicate offenses under the ACCA.
Court Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court did not err in sentencing defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act as his Missouri conviction for domestic assault qualified as a violent felony and his two drug convictions were properly considered as separate predicate offenses.
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