United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions for theft from a person and fleeing from an officer were "violent felonies" which would require a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. sec. 924(e).

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/02/2003
• Decided 09/22/2003
• Published 09/22/2003

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ray W. Daniel (argued), Office of the United States, Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Nancy Joseph (argued), Federal Defender Services of Eastern Wisconsin, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.