United States First Circuit

Defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm and an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act are affirmed where: 1) defendant failed to establish that the government purposely discriminated against African-Americans in exercising its peremptory challenge against a juror and thus the district court committed no error - clear or plain - in permitting the government's peremptory challenge against that prospective juror; and 2) the district court did not err in sentencing defendant as an armed career criminal.

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• Decided 04/01/2010
• Published 04/01/2010

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• United States First Circuit

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