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U.S. v. JAMES

No. 18-31069.

950 F.3d 289 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Keith A. JAMES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 18, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin G. Boitmann , Diane Hollenshead Copes, Esq. , Assistant U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Samantha Jean Kuhn , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Maura Doherty , Federal Public Defender's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before HAYNES and OLDHAM, Circuit Judges, and HANEN, District Judge.

The disputed question in this case is whether the Louisiana offense of armed robbery is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"). Under the ACCA, the ordinary statutory maximum sentence of ten years of imprisonment morphs to a statutory minimum of fifteen years of imprisonment. Compare...

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