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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Prior Conviction-Common Law Robbery

Staff Report//September 18, 2019//

Criminal Law: Sentencing-Prior Conviction-Common Law Robbery

Staff Report//September 18, 2019//

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Where a defendant in a felon-in-possession case challenged his sentence, a previous conviction for common-law robbery was a crime of violence under the elements clause, so the sentence is affirmed.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Morris (MLW No. 73827/Case No. 18-2825 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri.

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