Supreme Court of the United States
United States v. Stitt
This writing
- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Stephen Gerald Breyer
- Filed
- Dec. 10, 2018
- Case
- United States v. Stitt
- Case status
- Decided
Opening text
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Justice BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court. The Armed Career Criminal Act requires a federal sentencing judge to impose upon certain persons convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm a 15-year minimum prison term. The judge is to impose that special sentence if the offender also has three prior convictions for certain violent or drug-related crimes.…
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