Legal Opinion

United States v. Bobby Dinkins

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided July 1, 2019No. 18-6264PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARBARA MILANO KEENAN, Circuit Judge:

Bobby Arion Dinkins pleaded guilty in 2009 to a federal firearm charge, for which he was sentenced to serve a term of 252 months' imprisonment. His sentence included an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e)(1), based in part on his prior convictions in North Carolina for common law robbery and for being an accessory before the fact of armed robbery (the challenged convictions). In 2016, Dinkins filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 , in which he argued that the challenged convictions no longer qualified as predicate…

2Cases cited43 opinions

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  5. United States v. James McNealCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2016

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3Cited by32 opinions

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