United States v. Dennis Plemons

693 F. App'x 435

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Decided: July 24, 2017
• Docket: 15-6076
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

In 2014, Dennis Plemons pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court found that Plemons had three prior convictions for violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18' U.S.C. § 924(e), which triggered a mandatory-minimum sentence of 15 years. One of those convictions was for Tennessee aggravated burglary, Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-403. At the time of Plemons’s sentencing, that crime constituted a violent felony for purposes of the ACCA under our decision in United States v. Nance, 481 F.3d 882 (6th Cir. 2007). In United States v. Stitt, however, we overruled Nance and held that a conviction for Tennessee aggravated burglary is not a violent felony under the ACCA. 860 F.3d 854 (6th Cir. 2017) (en banc). Plemons’s conviction for that offense therefore was not a violent felony under the ACCA. We vacate Plemons’s sentence and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.