U.S. v. JONES

No. 11-3719.

689 F.3d 696 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Andre L. JONES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Hartzler (argued), Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Daniel T. Hansmeier (argued), Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Springfield, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and WOOD and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Andre Jones was convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon and was sentenced as an armed career criminal based in part on a prior Illinois conviction for vehicular fleeing, which the district judge counted as a third violent felony under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"). See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii). This classification triggered a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and raised the...

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