United States Seventh Circuit

Sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act is affirmed where an offender whose civil rights have been neither diminished nor returned is not a person who "has had civil rights restored" under the statute's definition of "conviction."

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2006
• Decided 07/06/2006
• Published 07/06/2006

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, ROVNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rita M. Rumbelow (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard A. Coad (argued), Federal Defender Services, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.