Matthew Richardson v. United States

HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Matthew Richardson appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to set aside his sentence, challenging his designation as an armed career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e), the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"). We AFFIRM .

I. BACKGROUND

In 2012, after attempting to sell a sawed-off shotgun, Richardson pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1). Based on Richardson's three prior Georgia burglary convictions, 1 each of which qualified as a predicate "violent felony" under the ACCA,…