United States Ninth Circuit

A sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed where defendant-s prior drug-related convictions were correctly characterized as "serious drug offenses" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) because Oregon "prescribe[s] by law" a "maximum term of imprisonment" of 10 years or more for delivery of methamphetamine.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/25/2006
• Decided 03/14/2007
• Published 03/14/2007

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge., Before STEPHEN REINHARDT and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges, and RONALD S.W. LEW, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William R. Sharp, Monks & Sharp, LLP, Eugene, OR, for the defendant-appellant., Frank R. Papagni, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Eugene, OR, for the plaintiff-appellee.