United States v. Alejos Cardenas

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• holding that two sales of crack separated by 45 minutes and one city block were separate offenses under the ACCA
• holding that two sales of crack separated by 45 minutes and one city block were separate offenses under the ACCA
• ruling that two drug deals carried out within 45 minutes were separate felonies
• holding two sales of crack cocaine on the same day were “separate and distinct episodes” because “[w]hile Cardenas sold the crack cocaine to the same people, the sales were separated by forty-five minutes and a half a block.”
• concluding two sales of crack cocaine made a half a block apart and separated by 45 minutes, and a third sale made the next day, all to the same people, were each separate and distinct criminal episodes constituting three previous convictions under section 924(e)(1)
• court determined that three drug sales to confidential informants occurring over two days, with two of those sales occurring only forty-five minutes apart, constituted three separate \occasions different from one another\ under armed criminal career enhancement statute

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