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Fourth Circuit Reverses § 924(c) Conviction Because Kidnapping No Longer Qualifies as Predicate Offense and ‘Critical Record Documents’ Do Not Show Firearm Charge Was ‘Expressly Predicated Upon’ Any Other Offense
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2023
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
December, 2023, page 32
Filed under:
Predicate Acts/Offenses.
Location:
South Carolina.
by Douglas Ankney
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed Elliott B. Graham’s 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction for “using a firearm during a crime of violence” because (1) the conviction was predicated upon a kidnapping conviction, (2) kidnapping is no longer considered a qualifying predicate crime of ...
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