United States v. Keith Block

*656 When Keith Block pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1), he became eligible for a fifteen-year mandatory-minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"). ACCA requires three prior qualifying crimes, and "we focus on the elements of th[os]e crime[s]-as opposed to the actual facts of what he did." Brown v. United States , 929 F.3d 554 , 556 (8th Cir. 2019) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). If the elements are "the same as, or narrower than," ACCA's categories of qualifying offenses, then the convictions count. Id. (citation…