Legal Opinion
United States v. Gerald Harris
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 27, 1992No. 91-1342PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
Gerald Harris has been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He appeals the fifteen-year sentence that a sentence-enhancement statute requires the district court to impose when a gun-possessing felon “has three previous convictions ... for violent felon[ies].” 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). He claims that the court should not have counted as “violent felonies,” two of his previous Massachusetts convictions for “assault and battery. Harris makes two arguments, neither of which warrants resentencing.
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