United States v. Leon Carter (11th Cir. August 2021)
ACCA, Eleventh Circuit, Recent Circuit Cases, Sentencing
|The Eleventh Circuit vacated a defendant’s 15-year sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Court held that the defendant’s prior conviction for aggravated assault under Georgia law was not a conviction for a “violent felony” under the ACCA’s elements clause because it only requires a mens rea of recklessness.