Felon In Possession Sentence Affirmed

In US v. Brown, No. 09-4991, the court affirmed defendant’s sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm where 1) two of defendant’s prior offenses were “committed on occasions different from one another” and therefore were properly counted as two separate Armed Career Criminal Act-qualifying convictions; and 2) it was appropriate for the district court to look to defendant’s record of conviction – including the plea transcript – to determine that defendant was convicted of assaulting employees of the department of correction.

Related Resources

  • Read the Second Circuit’s Decision in US v. Brown, No. 09-4991

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