Legal Opinion
United States v. Katrell B. Morris
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 2002No. 01-4241PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Katrell Morris pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon and was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. He, appeals his sentence on a number of grounds, but the dispositive one is his challenge to the court’s application of the armed career criminal enhancement. Morris acknowledges that if the armed career criminal enhancement is upheld, then his other challenges to the sentence are meaningless because the sentence would be valid.
Morris’ sentence was enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA),…
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