United States v. Floyd Evans

Floyd Evans pleaded guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(a) and 924(e)(1). The district court 1 determined that Evans was an armed career offender, based on his three previous convictions, 2 - and sen tenced him to 180 months’ imprisonment, pursuant to § 924(e)(1). On appeal Evans argues that (1) the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), § 924(e), is unconstitutionally vague; (2) the district court violated his Sixth Amendment rights by concluding that his two domestic violence convictions were committed on different…