Legal Opinion
United States v. Arnold Richards, III
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 7, 2006No. 05-2396PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Arnold Richards, III appeals from a 15-year incarcerative sentence imposed under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), which dictates that a person convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm is subject to a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence if he “has three previous convictions ... for a violent felony.” 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Concluding, as we do, that his assignments of error lack merit, we affirm.
The facts are straightforward. On March 3, 2005, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of Maine returned a two-count indictment against…
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