Oral argument: Oct. 6, 2009
Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (May 30, 2008)
ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT, CAREER CRIMINAL, RULE OF LENITY, FIREARM, GUN, FELON, FELONY...rule of lenity
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In 2002, Efrain Lora was trafficking narcotics in the Bronx. United States v. Lora at 1. In collaboration with four co-conspirators, he decided to kill Andrew Balcarran, a rival drug dealer, over threats Balcarran had made towards Lora and his co-...
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Lawrence Eugene Shaw was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1344(1) for executing a scheme to obtain funds from a Bank of America (“BoA”) account belonging to Stanley Hsu, a Taiwanese businessman. See United States v. Shaw, 781 F.3d 1130, 1133 (9th Cir. 2015...
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On September 26, 2008, Larry Whitfield and Quanterrious McCoy attempted an armed robbery of the Fort Financial Credit Union in Gastonia, North Carolina. See United States v. Whitfield, 695 F.3d 288, 292–93 (4th Cir. 2012). Whitfield and McCoy’s weapons...