United States v. Vincent Jay Letterlough

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s two sales of cocaine— within 90 minutes of each other — to same police officer constituted two ACCA “occasions”
• concluding that two drug transactions more than an hour apart occurred on occasions different from one another
• stating that “if any one of the factors has a strong presence,” it can outweigh the others
• noting that when defendant had over an hour and a half to deliberate and think of his next move, ample time had passed such that offenses would be considered separate
• finding two sales of cocaine to same undercover agent 90 minutes apart constituted separate ACCA predicates
• “Convictions occur on occasions different from one another if each of the prior convictions arose out of a separate and distinct criminal episode.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).