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Review Granted

17-5554 Stokeling v. United States

Ruling below (11th Cir., 684 F. App’x 870, 2017 BL 113730):

The decision below is vacated and remanded. The district court found that the defendant’s conviction for Florida robbery from before Florida passed a “robbery by sudden snatching” statute in 1999 didn’t qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), because it did not always require sufficient force to constitute a violent felony. The district court, therefore, didn’t enhance the defendant’s sentence. That, ...