Legal Opinion
Thomas Boaz v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 13, 2018No. 16-4127PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Boaz appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition. In 2009, a district court sentenced Boaz to 190 months' imprisonment and five years' supervised release after concluding that he qualified as an armed career criminal under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"). See 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e). In 2016, Boaz filed this § 2255 petition arguing that because Johnson v. United States , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2551 , 2563, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), invalidated the residual clause of the ACCA, he no longer qualified as an armed career criminal and should be…
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