United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is reversed, where convictions for carrying a concealed firearm are not "violent felonies" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), and thus Defendant did not have the requisite number of violent felonies on his record to warrant an ACCA enhancement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2009
• Published 06/11/2009

Judges

• COX, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, HULL and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Badalamenti, Fed. Pub. Def., Tampa, FL, Donna Lee Elm, Fed. Pub. Def., James T. Skuthan, Acting Fed. Pub. Def., Orlando, FL, Lisa Call, Fed. Pub. Def., Jacksonville, FL, for Canty., Patricia D. Barksdale, Jacksonville, FL, for U.S.