United States v. Paul Garnet Hill

OPINION

WALTER HERBERT RICE, Senior District Judge.

Defendant Paul Garnet Hill (“Hill”) pled guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which prohibits the possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The district court sentenced him as an armed career criminal to a 188-month term of incarceration, in accordance with the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), and United States Sentencing Guidelines (“U.S.S.G.”) § 4B1.4. That statute imposes a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years on anyone who has been convicted of violating § 922(g) and has three previous convictions “for a…