U.S. v. Fernandez, No. 06-1655 (1st Cir.) (121 F.3d 777) (August 6, 1997) (Judge Steven J. McAuliffe)
Loaded on Oct. 1, 1997
published in Punch and Jurists
October 06, 1997
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Prior Conviction/Sentence/Incarceration.
The defendant in this case argued that a prior assault and battery conviction should not have been counted in deciding his career offender status, because neither violence, nor the use of force, was an essential element of the Massachusetts crime for which he had earlier been convicted.
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