Legal Opinion
United States v. Fife
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 2010No. 09-2310PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the relatively rare government appeal of a criminal sentence, challenging the district court’s determination that Dewitt Fife’s prior convictions did not satisfy the requirements of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”) and therefore that he was not subject to the increased sentence under that Act. The unusual twist here is that the same criminal history was deemed sufficient by this court 14 years ago to meet the requirements of that same Act. United States v. Fife, 81 F.3d 62 (7th Cir.1996). The district court held in this case, however, that a…
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