United States v. Barbosa

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

*65 This appeal resembles a play in two acts. The first act deals with whether the district court erred in refusing to order a pretrial hearing to test the sufficiency of the probable cause allegations undergirding an arrest warrant. The second act deals with whether the district court erred in classifying the defendant as an armed career criminal and sentencing him under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e). As the final curtain descends, we find it manifest that the district court erred in neither respect. Accordingly, we affirm the defendant's…