Augustus Light v. John Caraway

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• the misapplication of the ACCA’s armed career criminal designation, like the misapplication of a mandatory career offender Guideline designation, is a “fundamental sentencing defect” that “result[s] in a miscarriage of justice”
• “We decline to contradict the Eighth Circuit’s 8 See also Cano v. Warden USP–Terre Haute, No. 2:17-cv-441, 2018 WL 3389746 (S.D. Ind. July 12, 2018); Roberts v. Watson, No. 16-cv-541, 2017 WL 6375812 (W.D. Wis. Dec. 12, 2017

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