United States v. Donald Lee Presley

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• concluding that Virginia common law robbeiy involved the use or threatened use of force and therefore was a predicate offense under the ACCA’s force clause
• stating that the Armed Career Criminal Act\does not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause\
• rejecting a similar ex post facto challenge to an Armed Career Criminal Act sentencing enhancement
• “[A] fifteen-year sentence under ACCA is neither disproportionate to the offense nor cruel and unusual punishment, and thus does not violate the Eighth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).