United States v. Matthews

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Larry Matthews was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”) to the statutory minimum fifteen-year term of imprisonment. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). His sentencing challenge requires us to consider an issue on which other circuits have split and ours has not yet explicitly spoken: whether juvenile adjudications constitutionally may be used as predicate convictions to support an ACCA enhancement. After a careful review of the relevant law in the context of this case, we find no due process…