WOFFORD, EUGENE, PEOPLE v

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• agreeing with the parties that reckless endangerment does not satisfy the ACCA force clause after Middleton
• noting that defendants have “a right to adequate notice” of an enhancement “to give the defendant an opportunity to contest” the enhancement and that such notice is “typically done . . . in the defendant’s [presentence report]” (cleaned up)
• “[I]t is unfair to allow parties to surprise one another with new arguments they did not make at the appropriate procedural juncture.” (cleaned up)
• “We will not allow the Government to change its position regarding which convictions support [an] ACCA enhancement now that one of its original choices . . . cannot do the job.”
• disallowing use of substitute predicate in collateral review proceeding

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