US v. Vann, 09-4298, concerned a challenge to the district court’s imposition of an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) based on defendant’s three previous convictions for taking indecent liberties with a child, in a prosecution for possessing a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 922(g).  In affirming, the court held that the defendant’s three prior convictions were based on his taking indecent liberties with a child by willfully committing a lewd or lascivious act upon the body of a child under the age of 16.  Further, as so formulated, defendant’s convictions were for violent felonies that serve as predicate offenses under the ACCA.

 

Related Resources:

  • Full text of US v. Vann, 09-4298
  • Full text of Henry v. Purnell, 08-7433

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