Shular v. United States

Decided February 26, 2020. Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 18-6662 · 589 U.S. 154 · Cited 207 times

For purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act’s sentence enhancement for a defendant convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm who has at least three convictions for “serious drug offense[s],” 18 U. S. C. §924(e)(1), the “serious drug offense” definition requires only that a state offense involve the conduct specified in the statute; it does not require that the state offense match certain generic offenses.

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