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· 4/28/1989

United States v. Edward Howard Palmer Actual the Honorable Paul A. Simmons, Nominal

Citations

  • 871 F.2d 1202

How courts have described this case

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  • in context of Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), burglary \presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.\
  • “it is obvious that the two priors must have resulted in convictions before the third crime took place. Three armed robberies — even months apart— would not be enough, unless there were convictions for two of them before the third took place”

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Judges: Sloviter, Becker, Barry

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