United States v. Crumble, No. 16-4308 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence and remanded for resentencing. The court held that the district court did not clearly err in finding abandonment of the cell phone at issue when the cell phone was found in a car that had driven into someone's house and where defendant fled the scene of the accident. The court also held that defendant's prior Minnesota burglary convictions did not qualify as violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. 924(e), and thus defendant's conviction as an armed career criminal must be vacated.
Court Description: Shepherd, Author, with Wollman, Circuit Judge, and Goldberg, Judge of the Court of International Trade] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not clearly err in determining defendant abandoned his cell phone when he crashed his car, fled the scene of the accident and left the phone in the abandoned car; defendant's Minnesota second-degree and third-degree burglary convictions do not qualify as violent felonies for purposes of sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, and the matter is remanded for resentencing.
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