Supreme Court· 6/6/2011

McNeill v. United States

Citations

131 S. Ct. 2218
180 L. Ed. 2d 35
563 U.S. 816
2011 U.S. LEXIS 4180

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holding that state’s subsequent lowering of punishment for crime of prior conviction did not render conviction inapplicable to Federal Armed Career Criminal Act
holding that a sentencing court applying the Armed Career Criminal Act must conduct a “backward-looking” inquiry into prior convictions, meaning the court must “consult the law that applied at the time of th[ose] conviction[s]”
noting that in “assessing” a previous offense, the Court “con- sulted” the “statutes and penalties that applied at the time of” the defendant’s conviction
noting that the Court has “repeatedly looked to the historical statute of conviction in the context of vio- lent felonies”
finding that the \plain text\ of a sentencing enhancement required courts to look to the state of the law at the time of the conviction irrespective of any subsequent amendments
noting that questions regarding the scope of past crimes in the context of the ACCA “can only be answered by reference to the law under which the defendant was convicted”

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