United States v. McKenney

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Shah McKenney pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), id. § 924(e), to the minimum sentence of fifteen years. His sentencing appeal raises two issues. The first is whether a state conviction for conspiracy to violate a state controlled substances law by agreeing to possess with intent to deliver cocaine is a conviction for an “offense under State law, involving manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture or distribute, a controlled…