Legal Opinion
United States v. Dantzler
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 14, 2014No. 13-2930-crPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
The Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), imposes a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence on violators who have three previous convictions for a violent felony or a serious drug offense “committed on occasions different from one another.” The question presented is whether, in determining whether crimes were committed “on occasions different from one another,” a court at sentencing is limited to examining only materials approved by the Supreme Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), and Shepard v.…
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- Taylor v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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