Legal Opinion
United States v. Lewis Pate
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2014No. 13-1207PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
Minnesota federal jurors convicted Lewis Pate of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and the district court 1 sentenced him pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to serve 200 months in prison. In this appeal, Pate challenges (1) his conviction, arguing insufficiency of the evidence; and (2) his sentence, asserting a Minnesota conviction for fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, see Minn.Stat. § 609.487, subd. 3, is not a violent felony within the meaning of the ACCA’s residual clause.
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