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Submitted: January 13, 2011

Before MURPHY, HANSEN, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

James Boyce pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The district court declined to enhance Boyce’s sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), after concluding that his prior conviction for possession of a weapon in a correctional facility did not qualify as a violent felony. Boyce was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment. The government appeals the court’s decision not to sentence Boyce under the ACCA. We reverse and remand for resentencing.

 
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