United States v. Curtis O'Neal

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Senior Judge BUTZNER joined.

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Curtis Lee O’Neal appeals from his federal conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm and his enhanced sentence as an armed career criminal. He contends that the district court should have granted him a new trial because of jury misconduct and that there were not three predicate convictions to support his enhanced sentence. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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In April 1995, a jury in the Western District of North Carolina convicted O’Neal of one…