Legal Opinion
Anthony Potter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 17, 2018No. 16-6628PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence on repeat offenders-those who have three or more previous convictions for a "violent felony." After the district court sentenced Anthony Potter as a repeat offender, Johnson v. United States , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2551 , 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), held that one feature of the Act (the residual clause) violates the Constitution's prohibition against vague criminal laws. Potter asked to be resentenced in a successive § 2255 motion, claiming he did not qualify as a repeat offender. The district…
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