U.S. v. ELLIOTT

No. 11-2766.

703 F.3d 378 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James ELLIOTT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emily Kathleen Cremeans (argued), Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Hammond, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

John E. Martin , Viniyanka Prasad (argued), Attorneys, Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., Hammond, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before MANION and ROVNER, Circuit Judges, and COLEMAN, District Judge.


ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

After he pleaded guilty to a felon-in-possession charge, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), James Elliott was sentenced as an armed career criminal based on the district court's finding that a series of three robberies he perpetrated in a five-day period when he was eighteen years old were "committed on occasions different from one another," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Elliott challenges that finding, contending that he had a right to have a jury,...

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