Legal Opinion

United States v. Oscar Harris

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided April 4, 2017No. 16-2239PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Oscar Harris of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and the district court sentenced him to 300 months’ imprisonment under the Armed Career Criminal Act’s residual clause. After the Supreme Court invalidated the residual clause, Harris received a new sentence of 115 months — the top of a range set in part by the district court’s determination that Harris’s two prior convictions for Michigan felonious assault were crimes of violence under the Guidelines. Harris challenged that determination, and appeals it here, on the ground that Michigan…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Taylor v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  2. Mathis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2016
  3. Descamps v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2013
  4. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  5. Moncrieffe v. HolderSupreme Court of the United States · 2013

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3Cited by33 opinions

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