Legal Opinion
United States v. Alexander
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 2010No. 08-17062PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COX, Circuit Judge:
Richard Lee Alexander appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The district court added a career offender enhancement to Alexander’s sentence because it held that his prior felony conviction under Fla. Stat. § 790.15(2) for discharging a firearm from a vehicle within 1,000 feet of another person qualified as a crime of violence under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Alexander contends that the enhancement was improper. Applying the framework announced by the Supreme Court in Begay v. United…
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