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Parties Involved:
John F. McCaul Jr.
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, United States District Judge for the

District of Nebraska.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 07-1292

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United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* District of Nebraska.

John F. McCaul Jr., *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: September 27, 2007

 Filed: October 2, 2007

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Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

John F. McCaul, Jr., pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm, which had traveled

in interstate commerce, after having been previously convicted of attempted burglary

and three counts of robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(e)(1).

Finding that McCaul’s prior convictions subjected him to enhanced sentencing as an

armed career criminal, the district court1

 sentenced him to the statutory minimum of

15 years in prison. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1); U.S.S.G. § 4B1.4. On appeal, McCaul

argues for the first time that the three robbery convictions, arising from robberies that

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occurred on the same day, should not be counted as separate predicate offenses for

enhancement purposes. 

We find no plain error in the court’s treatment of the robbery convictions. See

United States v. Patterson, 481 F.3d 1029, 1034 (8th Cir. 2007) (failure to raise issue

at sentencing results in plain-error review on appeal); United States v. Deroo, 304

F.3d 824, 828 (8th Cir. 2002) (“Crimes occurring even minutes apart can qualify . . .

if they have different victims and are committed in different locations.”); United

States v. Hamell, 3 F.3d 1187, 1191 (8th Cir. 1993) (two assaults committed within

minutes of each other were separate and distinct criminal episodes); see also, e.g.,

United States v. Green, 967 F.2d 459, 462 (10th Cir. 1992) (declining to depart from

holding that two burglaries occurring on same date at different times and different

places constitute separate criminal episodes).

Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed. 

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