United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for possession of a firearm and ammunition after conviction of a felony is affirmed where the district court correctly determined that defendant's prior New Mexico convictions for burglary and aggravated assault qualified as violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2010
• Published 06/14/2010

Judges

• BRISCOE, Chief Judge., Before BRISCOE, Chief Judge, BALDOCK and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John V. Butcher, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of Federal Public Defender, Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant., Laura Fashing, Assistant United States Attorney (Gregory J. Fouratt, United States Attorney, with her on the brief), Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee.