United States v. James Elliott

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

After he pleaded guilty to a felon-in-possession charge, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), James Elliott was sentenced as an armed career criminal based on the district court’s finding that a series of three robberies he perpetrated in a five-day period when he was eighteen years old were “committed on occasions different from one another,” 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Elliott challenges that finding, contending that he had a right to have a jury, rather than the judge, assess the nature of his prior crimes, and that our decision in United States v. Hudspeth, 42 F.3d 1015, 1019-22 (7th…