Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
District court's imposition of a 180 month sentence, as an armed career criminal, on a defendant convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm is reversed and remanded as a California offense of a lewd or lascivious act involving a person under the age of 14 is not a violent felony and as such, the 15 year minimum sentence for an armed career criminal does not apply.
Read US v. Goodpasture, No. 08-3328
Appellate Information
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Decided February 8, 2010
Judges
Before: Easterbrook. Chief Judge, and Kanne, Circuit Judge, and Kennelly, District Judge
Opinion by Circuit Judge Easterbrook
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