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James CHAPLIN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Deborah A. HICKEY, Warden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., Respondents-Appellees.
    No. 10-12022
    Non-Argument Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    Feb. 15, 2012.
    William Mallory Kent, Law Office of William M. Kent, Jacksonville, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    James Chaplin, Jesup, GA, pro se.
    R. Brian Tanner, James Christian Stuc-hell, Edward J. Tarver, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Savannah, GA, for Respondents-Appellees.
    Before TJOFLAT, CARNES and BLACK, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

James Chaplin, a counseled federal prisoner, appeals the district court’s order dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus, under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, for failure to state a claim. His claim is that he was wrongly sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), because of an escape conviction that Begay v. United States, 553 U.S. 137, 128 S.Ct. 1581, 170 L.Ed.2d 490 (2008), and Chambers v. United States, 555 U.S. 122, 129 S.Ct. 687, 172 L.Ed.2d 484 (2009), make clear is not a “violent felony” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), and that as a result of the error he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment beyond the statutory maximum applicable to his crime. Our decision in Gilbert v. United States, 640 F.3d 1293 (11th Cir.2010), did not decide that issue. See id. at 1295, 1306-07, 1312, 1316, 1319 n. 20, 1323. The Government concedes that Chaplin’s allegations, if true, do state a claim.

We exercise our discretion to accept in this case the Government’s concession that Chaplin may present his claim in a § 2241 petition, and we remand to the district court for further proceedings on the merits of Chaplin’s habeas claim to determine if the allegations of his petition are true.

VACATED and REMANDED for further proceedings.