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U.S. v. HARRIS

No. 91-1342.

964 F.2d 1234 (1992)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Gerald HARRIS, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Schechter, by appointment of the Court, with whom Law Offices of David A. Schechter, Providence, R.I., was on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Margaret E. Curran, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Lincoln C. Almond, U.S. Atty., and Edward J. Gale, Asst. U.S. Atty., Providence, R.I., were on brief for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CYR, Circuit Judge.

BREYER, Chief Judge.

Gerald Harris has been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He appeals the fifteen-year sentence that a sentence-enhancement statute requires the district court to impose when a gun-possessing felon "has three previous convictions ... for violent felon[ies]." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). He claims that the court should not have counted as "violent felonies," two of his previous Massachusetts convictions...

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