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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.