Legal Opinion
United States v. Sandoval
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 9, 2012No. 11-1303PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’BRIEN, Circuit Judge.
This is another of those cases, now becoming legion, 1 where we must decide if a prior conviction constitutes a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Gerald Sandoval pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, he admitted to several previous felony convictions, two of which, he also admits, are violent felonies as defined by the ACCA. But he claims neither of the two remaining previous felonies considered by the court, first-degree criminal trespass and…
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