Shannon v. Colvin

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• noting that 6 the parties had briefed the issue of which circuit’s law applied, but bypassing the procedural issue as the Seventh Circuit agreed with the circuit of conviction’s previous conclusion
• declining to address whether the court should apply Seventh Circuit precedent, Sixth Circuit precedent, or \simply the law of the United States\
• electing to “bypass … proce- dural hurdles,” like § 2255(e), to resolve a § 2241 petition on the merits
• “The Sixth Circuit held recently that Ken- tucky second-degree burglary qualifies as a predicate offense for an ACCA enhancement. … Our colleagues’ statutory in- terpretation and conclusion are persuasive.”

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