United States v. Donnie Walton

OPINION

RAKOFF, Senior District Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Donnie Lee Walton challenges the district court’s imposition of a sentencing enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). ACCA imposes a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years of imprisonment on a person who both violates Section 922(g) and has three previous convictions for either a “serious drug . offense,” , or a “violent felony,” or some combination of the two. Id.

When Walton pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), he had…