Legal Opinion
United States v. Andre L. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2012No. 11-3719PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Andre Jones was convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon and was sentenced as an armed career criminal based in part on a prior Illinois conviction for vehicular fleeing, which the district judge counted as a third violent felony under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”). See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii). This classification triggered a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and raised the statutory maximum to life. The judge sentenced Jones to 184 months, just above the mandatory minimum.
Jones challenges only his sentence, raising…
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