United States Second Circuit

Criminal possession of a weapon and attempted burglary are each considered "violent felonies" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. 924(e) to justify a statutory minimum of fifteen years' imprisonment when there are three prior violent felony convictions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/27/2008
• Published 02/27/2008

Judges

• HALL, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CALABRESI, RAGGI, HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Denis Patrick Kelleher, Kelleher & Dunne LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Christopher L. Lavigne, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney, John M. Hillebrecht, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellee.