Legal Opinion
United States v. Joseph Randall Hobbs, Jr., United States of America v. Joseph Randall Hobbs, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 18, 1998No. 97-4393, 97-4440PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated and remanded in part by published opinion. Judge ELLIS wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINSON and Senior Judge MERHIGE joined.
OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge:
A jury convicted Joseph Randall Hobbs of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C..§ 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court declined to apply the enhanced sentencing provision of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), because it determined that Hobbs’s three prior burglaries were not offenses “committed on occasions different…
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