United States of America v. Michael Roman Burghardt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE United States of America v. Criminal No. 17-cr-45-JL Opinion No.

2018 DNH 150

Michael Roman Burghardt MEMORANDUM ORDER This case requires the court to assess the impact, if any, of the defendant’s prior state-court drug and robbery convictions on his sentence for illegal firearm possession. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Specifically, the court must determine whether the defendant’s New Hampshire convictions for selling heroin1 are “serious drug offenses” within the meaning of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A). If…