Legal Opinion
United States v. James E. Washington
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 17, 1997No. 96-3092PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is convicted ... of a serious violent felony shall be sentenced to life imprisonment” if he has been convicted “on separate prior occasions ... of ... 2 or more serious violent felonies”. 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(1). This “three strikes”, law applies to James E. Washington, who was convicted in 1973 of murder (he shot a robbery victim in the back with a sawed-off shotgun) and in 1987 of attempted murder (he robbed his father and then stabbed him in the throat), followed by three bank robberies in 1995. Each crime…
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