United States v. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Robert Anderson appeals his sentence, imposed pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), following his guilty plea on two counts of possession of a firearm and am munition by a convicted felon, id. § 922(g)(1). The correctness of the district court’s application of ACCA turns on whether at least three crimes for which Anderson was previously convicted were “violent felonies” as that term is defined in ACCA’s residual clause. See id. § 924(e)(1). 1 The district court determined that four prior convictions qualified as violent felonies: (1) a…
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