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No sentencing enhancements for recklessness convictions under federal Armed Career Criminal Act

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At sentencing, the government sought an enhancement under the ACCA; it claimed that three of Borden’s prior felony convictions were violent felonies. He asserted that one of the felonies the government cited included recklessness, and, therefore, was not a violent felony. The district court ruled for the government and the U.S.