United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is reversed, where Defendant's prior Washington State conviction for statutory rape was not a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, because that offense may involve consensual sexual intercourse.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2007
• Decided 03/23/2009
• Published 03/23/2009

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PROCTER HUG, JR., M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christina L. Hunt, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Spokane, WA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• George J.C. Jacobs, III, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Spokane, WA, for the appellee.