POSTED: Thursday, June 9th, 2011 at 11:28 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Sentencing ACCA; fleeing an officer Felony vehicle flight is a violent felony for purposes of ACCA. Sykes’ argument—that Begay v. United States, 553 U. S. 137, and Chambers v. United States, 555 U. S. 122, require ACCA predicate crimes to be purposeful, violent, and aggressive in ways that vehicle flight is not—overreads those opinions. In [...]