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Showing posts with label career offender. Show all posts

Showing posts with label career offender. Show all posts

Friday, September 19, 2014

Convictions Under Pennsylvania’s Terroristic Threat Statute Are not Crimes of Violence.

Applying the holding in Descamps v. United States , 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013), the Third Circuit held in United States v. Brown (13-4442) ...

Monday, January 07, 2013

Under the Modified Categorical Approach, Sentencing Courts May Only Consider the Charging Documents and the Jury Instructions When Determining if a State Offense is a Predicate Offense Under ACCA.

After pleading guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), Dantey Tucker was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment based on the sentenc...

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