Legal Opinion
United States v. Solomon Wright
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 1995No. 94-2413PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
On June 2, 1994, Solomon Wright pled guilty to carrying a weapon while drug trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and possession of a weapon by a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). The district court sentenced Wright as an armed career criminal pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), based on his three previous convictions for armed robbery in 1968, breaking and entering in 1971, and burglary in 1982. The district court sentenced him to concurrent sentences of 60 months imprisonment for carrying a firearm during…
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