Legal Opinion
United States v. Moses Childs, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 11, 2005No. 04-2701PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Moses Childs, Jr. (“Childs”), appeals the sentence the district court 1 imposed upon him based on its findings that he had three prior convictions for violent felonies under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). We affirm.
Childs pled guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, as amended in 1986, imposes a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence on any person who violates § 922(g) and “has three previous convictions ... for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, or both,…
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