United States v. Ronald Peppers

JORDAN, Circuit Judge.

Ronnie Peppers was sentenced in 2003 to fifteen years of imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. That was the mandatory minimum under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("the ACCA" or "the Act"), and the District Court imposed it because of Peppers's previous convictions. Peppers now challenges that sentence as unconstitutional in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2551 , 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), which invalidated a clause of the ACCA-the "residual clause"-as unconstitutionally vague. He argued in…