Legal Opinion
United States v. Trevon Sykes
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 21, 2016No. 14-3139PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Trevon Sykes pled guilty to being a felon in possession of numerous firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Finding that Sykes had committed three predicate offenses qualifying as violent felonies under the .Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), the district court 1 sentenced Sykes to 180 months in prison and a three-year term of supervised release. Sykes appealed his sentence, raising issues related to the nature of his predicate offenses coupled with his age at the time of the commission of these offenses. We affirmed.
The United States…
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