United States v. Larry Holt

682 F. App'x 543

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Decided: April 17, 2017
• Docket: 16-3179
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

After Larry Holt pleaded guilty to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, see 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and one count of conspiring to distribute heroin, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), and 18 U.S.C. § 2, the district court 1 sentenced him as an armed career criminal. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). He maintains on appeal that the district court erred in concluding that he is an armed career criminal because his conviction for unlawfully using a weapon under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.030.1(4) is not a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act. Holt recognizes that our court has already determined that a conviction under this statute is a violent felony, see United States v. Pulliam, 566 F.3d 784, 788 (8th Cir. 2009), but he argues that we are not bound by Pulliam in light of intervening Supreme Court decisions. We reject Holt’s argument because another panel of our court recently determined that Pulliam is still good law despite the same authorities that Holt relies on here. See United States v. Hudson, 851 F.3d 807, 809-10 (8th Cir. 2017). The decision of a prior panel binds our panel. United States v. Eason, 829 F.3d 633, 641 (8th Cir. 2016).

Affirmed.

1 . The Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.