Legal Opinion
United States v. Jonathon Lamb
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 3, 2017No. 15-2399PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Jonathon Adam Lamb pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court 1 sentenced Lamb to 180 months in prison, the mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”) for a defendant who has three prior “violent felony” convictions. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Lamb appealed his sentence. We affirmed, applying the familiar but often perplexing “categorical approach” to assess whether his prior convictions were violent felonies as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B). See Descamps v. United…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- James v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
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