Massey v. United States

*249Burgess Massey was convicted of possession of a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) in March 2004. The District Court-during sentencing-explicitly found that Massey's prior felony convictions for third-degree robbery, second-degree assault, and second-degree attempted assault (all under New York law) subjected his sentence to enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), because all three of those offenses involved the use or attempted use of force; the court imposed a sentence of 235 months' imprisonment. App. 30.1 This Court affirmed his…