Legal Opinion
United States v. Clinkscale
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2009No. 08-1163PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
Leon Clinkscale, Jr., pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court sentenced him as an armed career criminal to 180 months in prison, the mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Clinkscale appeals the sentence, contending that his prior Minnesota convictions for motor vehicle theft and for terroristic threats were not “violent felonies” within the meaning of § 924(e), an issue we review de novo. With the case pending on appeal, panels of this court overruled our prior decisions on which…
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