United States v. Jorge Cisneros

OPINION

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Jorge Armando Cisneros appeals the district court’s decision to sentence him to a mandatory-minimum sentence of fifteen years in prison under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”). See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Cisneros does not have “three previous convictions” that qualify as “a violent felony or a serious drug offense” under ACCA. Id. Accordingly, we vacate Cisneros’s sentence and remand to the district court for resentencing.

I

Under ACCA, a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) faces a fifteen-year mandatory-minimum sentence if he “has three…