Ernest D. Shields v. United States

In this appeal of a denial of a petition for review under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 , Ernest Shields argues that he should not have been sentenced as an armed career criminal because two of his Illinois convictions-one for residential burglary and another for armed robbery-cannot be characterized as violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act, see 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e). Our recent precedent forecloses the argument about his residential burglary conviction, and we conclude that armed robbery in Illinois is a violent felony because it requires "force or threatened use of force." We therefore…