United States Supreme Court

In a dispute involving a state's ex post facto reduction of the maximum sentence for offenses under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U. S. C. section 922(g)(1), judgment of the appeals court upholding petitioner's sentencing enhancement based on petitioner's prior drug trafficking convictions is affirmed because a federal sentencing court must determine whether an offense under State law is a serious drug offense by consulting the maximum term of imprisonment applicable to a defendant's prior state drug offense at the time of the defendant's conviction for that offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2011
• Published 06/06/2011

Judges

• THOMAS

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel