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U.S. v. JENKINS

No. 13-6506.

770 F.3d 507 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert A. JENKINS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

October 27, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Deanna L. Dennison , Covington, KY, for Appellant. Charles P. Wisdom, Jr. , Neeraj K. Gupta , United States Attorney's Office, Lexington, KY, for Appellee.

Before: SILER, SUTTON, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

When Robert Jenkins pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, that was the least of his problems. This was not his first encounter with the criminal laws, and the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) does not take kindly to recidivists. It imposes a mandatory minimum fifteen-year sentence on anyone previously convicted of three or more violent felonies that occurred "on occasions different from one another." Kentucky...

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