United States v. Dawn, No. 15-1136 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to dealing in firearms without a license and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The district court sentenced Defendant to 180 months in prison - the mandatory minimum - and sixty months of supervised release. Defendant appealed, arguing that the district court failed to conduct a proper inquiry under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11 in accepting his guilty pleas and that the district court erred in sentencing him. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) even if it were assumed that the district court violated Rule 11, Defendant did not show how, but for such an error, it was probable that he would not have pled guilty; and (2) the district court did not err in classifying Defendant as an armed career criminal under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
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