Legal Opinion
United States v. Wendell T. Jackson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 20, 1997No. 96-3074PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge:
Appellant received a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act after the police, during an investigatory stop of the car he was driving, found a firearm in his possession. Jackson now contests both the reasonableness of the stop and his sentence. We affirm.
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At approximately 8:20 p.m. on August 1, 1995, two District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department officers on patrol observed appellant’s car make a U-turn in front of the officers’ vehicle. Noticing that the rear vent window on…
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- United States v. Benjamin Thomas Tisdale, IIICourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
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