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Parties Involved:
Kenneth Redd
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Charles A. Shaw, United States District Judge for the Eastern

District of Missouri.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 06-1637

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United States of America, *

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Appellee, *

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v. * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the

Kenneth Redd, * Eastern District of Missouri.

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Appellant. * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Submitted: March 7, 2007

Filed: March 15, 2007

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Before COLLOTON, HANSEN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

A jury found Kenneth Redd guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm,

in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); attempting to tamper with evidence, in violation

of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(2)(B); and attempting to obstruct justice, in violation of 18

U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). The district court1

 sentenced him to a total of 240 months in

prison and 3 years of supervised release. On appeal, Redd argues that it violated the

Sixth Amendment for the district court to find the fact of his prior convictions and

their nature as violent felonies, which subjected him as an armed career criminal to

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enhanced statutory and Guidelines penalties. Our precedent holds to the contrary. See

United States v. Headbird, 461 F.3d 1074, 1079 (8th Cir. 2006) (district court has

authority to find both existence and nature of prior convictions that trigger

armed-career-criminal enhancements; Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S.

224 (1998), remains good law, unaffected by United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220

(2005), and Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005)). Accordingly, we affirm

the judgment of the district court.

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