United States First Circuit

In determining whether prior drug convictions may serve as predicate offenses for sentence-enhancement purposes under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), because the state statute under which defendant was previously convicted provides for a maximum possible penalty of ten years' incarceration, convictions fit within the definition of "serious drug offense" as defined in the ACCA, and sentence affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/12/2002
• Published 04/12/2002

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. Peter Parker on brief for appellant., Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and Theodore D. Chuang, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief, for the United States.