Legal Opinion
United States v. Benjamin Thomas Tisdale, III
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 18, 1993No. 92-6109PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
This ease is before us a third time to review the sentence imposed upon Benjamin Tisdale following his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). 1 By virtue of that conviction and his prior criminal record, Tisdale is classified as an armed career criminal, subject by statute to a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). 2 The district court initially sentenced Tisdale to 30 years. We remanded for resentencing because the court’s stated reasons for the sentence were…
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