United States v. Willie Dillard

MEMORANDUM **

Willie Allen Dillard challenges the district court’s decision to apply the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”) enhancement at his sentencing on his conviction of felon-in-possession of a firearm. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a)(1), and we affirm.

Dillard’s basic contention is that one of the predicate convictions supporting the district court’s application of the ACCA enhancement — a conviction obtained when Dillard was seventeen years old after a Nevada juvenile court had certified him to be tried as an adult — is not a “prior conviction”…