No sentencing enhancements for recklessness convictions under federal Armed Career Criminal Act
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2021
The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr. pleaded guilty to violating a federal law barring people convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. The ACCA, in Borden’s view, required a higher culpable state of mind, or mens rea , than recklessness. The district court ruled for the government and the U.S.
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