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U.S. v. SCHOFIELD

No. 96-2332.

114 F.3d 350 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael V. SCHOFIELD, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. West, Providence, RI, by Appointment of the Court, for appellant.

Margaret E. Curran, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, and Gerard B. Sullivan, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for the United States.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Michael Schofield pled guilty to one count of being a "felon in possession" of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), and received a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years imprisonment under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), id. § 924(e)(1). He now appeals this sentence, arguing that certain prior state convictions in Rhode Island do not count as "predicate offenses" triggering the ACCA. We disagree and affirm.

The ACCA establishes...

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