United States v. Titley

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• rejecting equal protection challenge to Armed Career Criminal Act designation based on two state drug convictions that the appellant argued “would not qualify had the predicate offenses been committed in 19 other states or the District of Columbia”
• rejecting contention that Armed Career Criminal Act designation violated principles of equal protection because predicates would not have qualified as “serious drug offenses” had criminal defendant committed them in 19 other states or the District of Columbia
• “Our cases also support rational basis review of equal protection challenges in the sentencing context.”
• ―Our cases also support rational basis review of equal protection challenges in the sentencing context.‖
• ―Our cases also support rational basis review of equal protection challenges in the sentencing context.‖
• same criminal conduct may be felony in one state but only misdemeanor in another, thereby affecting eligibility for sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act

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