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U.S. v. DANCY

No. 09-2628.

640 F.3d 455 (2011)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Willie DANCY, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 13, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Rankin , with whom Michelle Menken and Rankin & Sultan were on brief, for appellant.

Cynthia A. Young , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Carmen M. Ortiz , United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Willie Dancy, convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and sentenced to fifteen years (180 months) of imprisonment under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), brings serious challenges to both his conviction and his sentence.

As to his conviction, Dancy argues that the firearm and related evidence should have been suppressed, that other evidence was inadmissible and prejudicial...

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