Boaz v. United States

The Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial of a 28 U.S.C. 2255 petition to vacate a sentence in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551, 2563 (2015). The court held that petitioner's prior Arizona conviction for exhibiting a deadly weapon qualified as a predicate offense under the force clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. 924(e). Therefore, petitioner remained an armed career criminal without reliance on the now-invalidated residual clause. View "Boaz v. United States" on Justia Law