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SHIELDS v. U.S.

No. 17-1929.

885 F.3d 1020 (2018)

Ernest D. SHIELDS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 21, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Kennedy , Attorney, Evanston, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Jason A. Yonan , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Bauer and Barrett, Circuit Judges.

In this appeal of a denial of a petition for review under 18 U.S.C. § 2255, Ernest Shields argues that he should not have been sentenced as an armed career criminal because two of his Illinois convictions — one for residential burglary and another for armed robbery — cannot be characterized as violent felonies under the Armed...

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