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U.S. v. DARDEN

Docket Nos. 06-4567-cr, 06-4821-cr, 07-0025-cr, 07-2664-cr(L), 07-2869-cr(XAP).

539 F.3d 116 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joel DARDEN, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Appellant, v. Ralph Archer, Defendant-Appellee. United States of America, Appellant, v. Pedro A. Villegas, also known as Feda Villegas, Defendant-Appellee. United States of America, Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Andre Williams, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 15, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Marinaccio, Culleton, Marinaccio & Foglia, White Plains, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Joel Darden.

John M. Burke, Brooklyn, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Ralph Archer.

Lloyd Epstein, Epstein & Weil, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Pedro Villegas.

Steven M. Statsinger, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Andre Williams.

Arvin Moyne, Assistant United States Attorney (Peter A. Norling, Evan C. Williams, James P. Loonam, Elizabeth A. Latif, and Diane Gujarati, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the briefs) for Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee in No. 06-4567, for Appellants in Nos. 07-0025, 06-4821, and for Appellant-Cross-Appellee in Nos. 07-2664, 07-2869.

Before CARDAMONE and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, District Judge.

POOLER, Circuit Judge:

The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) mandates a fifteen year minimum sentence for anyone convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), who "has three previous convictions ... for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, or both." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Section 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) defines a "serious drug offense," in relevant part, as "an offense...

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