Legal Opinion
Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. Warden, FCC Coleman - Medium
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 2016No. 12-14989PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
In 2003, Petitioner Dan McCarthan pled guilty to being a felon-in-possession of a firearm. The maximum sentence for a felon-in-possession conviction is ten years’ imprisonment. 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2). But the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), requires sentencing courts to impose a term of imprisonment no lower than 15 years when a defendant has three prior convictions that qualify as serious drug offenses or violent felonies under the ACCA. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). At the time of his sentencing, McCarthan had five prior convictions that arguably qualified him for an ACCA…
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