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163971P.pdf   04/04/2018  United States  v.  Bobby Hampton
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3971
                          and No:  17-1607
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Texarkana   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Erickson, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Defendant's Batson challenge 
   rejected; the government gave legitimate, race-neutral justifications for 
   striking a juror, i.e., her non-responsiveness to questioning during voir 
   dire, body language and unwillingness to make eye contact; with respect to 
   the government's cross-appeal, while this matter was pending, another 
   panel of this court held that convictions under Ark. Code Ann. Sec. 
   5-39-201(a) do not qualify as violent felonies under the ACCA, see Sims v. 
   United States, 854 F.3d 1037 (8th Cir. 2017), and the district court did 
   not err in determining defendant did not qualify for ACCA sentencing.