United States v. Dority

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

After Ricky Dority was convicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the district court turned to the question of sentencing. Finding that Mr. Dority had at least three prior violent felony convictions, the court held it was obliged to apply a fifteen year mandatory sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Mr. Dority disputed whether one of the prior convictions the district court cited — a conviction for escaping a penal institution — qualified as a “violent felony” as that term is used in the…