Legal Opinion
United States v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2009No. 08-3514PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Marquan Wilson pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). At sentencing, the district court 1 found that Wilson was subject to the terms of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), based on his three prior violent felony convictions. Accordingly, the district court sentenced Wilson to 180 months’ imprisonment, the mandatory minimum sentence under the ACCA. Wilson appeals his sentence, arguing that he should not have been subject to the ACCA because one of his three prior felony…
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