United States v. Lawrence

OPINION

CANBY, Senior Circuit Judge:

Anthony L. Lawrence was convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), following his involvement in a shooting in early 2008. At sentencing, the district court determined that the Armed Career Criminal Act’s (“ACCA”) fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence applied in Lawrence’s case. Lawrence now appeals his sentence, arguing that the government failed to prove that he had three previous qualifying convictions that would trigger the ACCA’s mandatory minimum. 1 We have jurisdiction…