Legal Opinion
Albert Williams v. Warden, Federal Bureau of Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 11, 2013No. 11-13306PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Albert Williams appeals the dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for habeas corpus, claiming that his 293-month sentence for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), was improper because he did not have the three violent felony predicates required to apply the ACCA enhancement. Without that enhancement, a § 922(g)(1) offense carries a ten-year maximum sentence. At issue is whether the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allowed the district court to entertain Williams’s § 2241 petition and, if it…
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