Legal Opinion

United States v. James Earl Matthews

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided January 29, 2002No. 19-35843PublishedCited by 184 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge.

Defendant James Earl Matthews (“Matthews”) was convicted of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal to 280 months in prison under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) and United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 4B 1.4(b)(3)(B). Matthews appealed both the underlying conviction and his sentence. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a).

A three-judge panel of this court affirmed Matthews’s conviction, reversed his sentence, and remanded for resentencing on the existing record. We agreed to rehear…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Taylor v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  2. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. Witte v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  4. United States v. Javier Rivera-Sanchez, A/K/A Jose SanchezCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
  5. United States v. Marlene Cox Schneider and Paul S. SchneiderCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991

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3Cited by184 opinions

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