Legal Opinion
United States v. Randolph A. Parker
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 28, 1993No. 92-10462PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals the district court’s refusal to sentence Randolph Parker to a fifteen-year term of imprisonment upon his conviction of possession of a firearm by a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). We conclude that, in determining whether a prior conviction following a jury trial was a “violent felony” for purposes of the armed career criminal provision, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), the sentencing court may not resort to the charging instrument alone. Nor may it resort solely to the charging paper and verdict form where the form fails to reflect that the requisite facts…
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