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Title: United States of America v. Walker
Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 17, 1999
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 59 KB

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This appeal presents a single important issue of first impression in this circuit. Can a federal prisoner, by filing a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Â§ 2255, challenge, reopen and reduce his federal sentence, enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. Â§ 924(e), after one of his three predicate state court convictions has been vacated in a state habeas action? To date, seven of our sister circuits have held or indicated (without expressly deciding) that he can. Unwilling to create a split with such a majority, we also agree that he can.