No sentencing enhancements for recklessness convictions under federal Armed Career Criminal Act
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2021
The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr. At sentencing, the government sought an enhancement under the ACCA; it claimed that three of Borden’s prior felony convictions were violent felonies. He asserted that one of the felonies the government cited included recklessness, and, therefore, was not a violent felony.
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