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BENNETT v. U.S.

No. 16-2039.

868 F.3d 1 (2017)

George H. BENNETT, Petitioner, Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 5, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret D. McGaughey , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Thomas E. Delahanty II , United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellant.

James S. Nixon , Assistant Federal Defender, with whom Federal Defender Office — Bangor Branch was on brief, for appellee.

Before Barron, Circuit Judge, Souter, Associate Justice, and Selya, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns George Bennett's challenge to his thirty-year prison term for a number of federal crimes. Bennett's sentence depended, in significant part, on the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). That law imposes a mandatory minimum prison sentence of fifteen years on a defendant who has been...

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