Johnson v. United States, No. 13-546 (2d Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePetitioner, convicted of bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and using and carrying a firearm during and in connection with a crime of violence, appealed the denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2255 petition for relief. Petitioner argued that the firearms conviction must be vacated because there is no subsisting conviction on the predicate crime of violence where the court vacated the bank robbery conviction on the ground of multiplicity with the conviction for armed bank robbery in the same incident. The court held that a conviction for the firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) requires legally sufficient proof that the predicate crime of violence was committed but it does not require a conviction for that predicate crime. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment of the district court.
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