United States v. Robert Jenkins, Jr.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

When Robert Jenkins pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, that was the least of his problems. This. was not his first encounter with the criminal laws, and the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) does not take kindly to recidivists. It imposes a mandatory minimum fifteen-year sentence' on anyone previously convicted of three or more violent felonies that occurred “on occasions different from one another.” Kentucky previously convicted him of robbing nine different homes during an alcohol-and-drug-induced crime spree that, depending on whom you…