Legal Opinion
United States v. Cummings
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 8, 2008No. 19-1381PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-Appellant Richard Cummings appeals his fifteen-year statutory mandatory minimum sentence imposed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Cummings contends that his three prior burglary convictions under Maine law do not qualify as “violent felonies” for the purposes of § 924(e). We disagree. The district court properly sentenced Cummings pursuant to § 924(e) because the Maine burglary statute is consistent with the generic definition of burglary the Supreme Court adopted in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990). We have…
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