Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamine challenged his sentence, particularly the career-offender designation, the district court erred in finding that the prior conviction for terroristic threatening under Arkansas law was a crime of violence for sentencing purposes, ...

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  Defendant pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with intent to distribute. Defendant’s presentence investigation report included a prior Illinois conviction for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. After the Illinois Supreme Court declared the statute of conviction unconstitutional in ...

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Where a defendant in a drug case challenged the admission of evidence of his three prior felony drug convictions and testimony about him being under court supervision at the time of his arrest, the district court properly limited the evidence ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a felon-in-possession case, the Arkansas convictions for first-degree terroristic threatening and second-degree domestic battery were violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. U.S. v. ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence after pleading guilty to a felon-in-possession charge, the district court did not err in calculating the guidelines range, and prior Missouri convictions for second-degree robbery and second-degree assault were properly found to be crimes ...

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Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession argued that his prior drug-conspiracy conviction was not a controlled-substance offense under the guidelines, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant did not show any error that was ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a drug case, the district court did not err in finding that his five convictions for selling cocaine base were serious drug convictions for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act, and the ...

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Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession argued that his prior drug-conspiracy conviction was not a controlled-substance offense under the guidelines, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant did not show any error that was ...

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Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm, argued that the district court erred in calculating his offense level for sentencing purposes, the court made an alternative determination that rendered the issue moot, declaring that the ...

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Where a defendant argued on appeal that his Illinois convictions for robbery, armed robbery and attempted armed robbery were not crimes of violence for sentencing purposes, the judgment is affirmed because the court has held that Illinois robbery is a ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a felon-in-possession case, his prior convictions in Wisconsin for burglary of a building or dwelling did not qualify as violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act, so the sentence is vacated and ...

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