United States Seventh Circuit

Sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act is affirmed where the court did not err in viewing additional material to determine whether one of the defendant's prior convictions qualified as a violent felony for purposes of the act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2006
• Decided 07/07/2006
• Published 07/07/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, pro se, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL.


• For Appellees:
  
• Colin S. Bruce (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Urbana Division, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jonathan E. Hawley (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, Tiffani D. Johnson, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Urbana, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.