Legal Opinion

United States v. Darnell Mitchell

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided February 28, 2014No. 13-5288PublishedCited by 77 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Darnell Mitchell appeals the district court’s determination that his prior Tennessee state robbery convictions are violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). For the following reasons, we AFFIRM.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Mitchell was convicted in 2012 on one count of being "a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). A Presentence Investigation Report (“PSR”) was completed that classified Mitchell as an “armed career criminal” on account of having committed three violent…

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