Legal Opinion
Michael Hill v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 13, 2017No. 16-3239PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.'
Following his convictions for drug and firearms crimes, Michael Hill was sentenced to 276 months’ imprisonment as an armed career criminal. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act or ACCA. He contends in this successive collateral attack (which we authorized under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b), 2255(h)) that one of his earlier convictions does not qualify as a “violent felony” and that the recidivist enhancement therefore is improper. The United States could have invoked a number of procedural defenses, see Stanley v. United States, 827 F.3d 562 (7th Cir.…
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