U.S. v. Seals, No. 96-3108 (D.C. Cir.) (130 F.3d 451) (December 5, 1997) (Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson)
Loaded on Jan. 1, 1998
published in Punch and Jurists
January 12, 1998
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Prior Conviction/Sentence/Incarceration.
Court vacated conviction as "career offender", because of its prior ruling that the pre-1995 version of § 4B1.1 did not apply to crimes not listed in 18 U.S.C. § 994(h).
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