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U.S. v. ROYAL

No. 10-5296.

731 F.3d 333 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas ROYAL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: October 1, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James Christopher Fraser , Venable, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. John Walter Sippel, Jr. , Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: James Wyda , Federal Public Defender, Baltimore, Maryland, Paresh S. Patel , Office of the Federal Public Defender, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant. Rod J. Rosenstein , United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, DIAZ, Circuit Judge, and CATHERINE C. EAGLES, United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

DIAZ, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Royal was convicted by a jury of unlawfully possessing ammunition after being previously convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court determined that Royal was an armed career criminal under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), triggering a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence. The court sentenced...

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