Supreme Court of the United States

United States, Petitioner v. Victor J. Stitt, Ii. United States, Petitioner v. Jason Daniel Sims.

December 10, 2018139 S. Ct. 399

Summary

The Court held that under the Armed Career Criminal Act, burglary of a non‑permanent or mobile structure adapted or customarily used for overnight accommodation qualifies as “burglary” within the statute’s generic definition, and therefore such prior convictions trigger the ACCA’s mandatory fifteen‑year minimum. The judgments of the Sixth and Eighth Circuits were reversed, vacated, and the cases remanded for resentencing consistent with this interpretation.