United States v. Nigg

PRATT, District Judge.

Under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), any person convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm who has “three previous convictions ... for a violent felony ... committed on occasions different from one another” is subject to a mandatory minimum prison term of fifteen years. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). On June 6, 2011, the district judge in this case sentenced Steven J. Nigg — who has three pri- or felony armed robbery convictions, all of which stem from a crime spree that occurred more than thirty-five years ago — to the mandatory minimum sentence under the…