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161233P.pdf 08/13/2019 United States v. Jason Sims
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1233
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Benton, Circuit Judge, and Schreier,
District Judge]
Criminal case - Sentencing. For the court's prior opinion see U.S. v.
Sims, 854 F.3d 1037 (8th Cir. 2017), cert. granted, 138 S. Ct. 1592
(2018); judgment vacated and remanded for further proceedings, U.S. v.
Stitt, 139 S. Ct. 399, 408 (2018). Held: The Supreme Court's decision in
Stitt dictates that Arkansas burglary does qualify as a violent felony
under the Armed Career Criminal Act; the court's prior opinion is vacated,
and the district court's judgment sentencing defendant as an armed career
criminal is affirmed.
161233P.pdf 04/27/2017 United States v. Jason Sims
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1233
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Riley, Circuit Judge, and Schreier,
District Judge]
Criminal case - Sentencing. Defendant's Arkansas residential burglary
convictions do not qualify as predicate offenses for sentencing under the
Armed Career Criminal Act as the statute categorically sweeps more broadly
than generic burglary; reversed and remanded for resentencing.