POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant pleaded guilty to bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and was then sentenced to life in prison under the federal "three strikes and you're out" law, 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c). That law requires a life sentence upon conviction of a "serious violent felony," defined to include bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(2)(F)(i), if, so far as is relevant to this case, the defendant has previously been convicted of two...
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