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986 F2d 1248 United States v. Wind 986 F.2d 1248
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Gary Lee WIND, Appellant.
No. 92-1331.
Submitted Oct. 12, 1992.Decided March 4, 1993.
Mark D. Nyvold, St. Paul, MN, argued for appellant.
D. Gerald Wilhelm, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Thomas B. Heffelfinger and Christopher J. Bebel, on the brief), for appellee.
Gary Lee Wind appeals his conviction following a jury trial and the fifteen-year sentence imposed on him by the District Court for the District of Minnesota under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), for possessing a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Wind challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and the use of his prior convictions in applying the fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). We affirm the conviction but reverse the sentence and remand for resentencing.
On April 5, 1991, a Minneapolis police officer was filling the gas tank of his squad car when he was approached by a man who appeared nervous and upset. The man told the officer something which caused the officer to call for backup and to drive about a block from the gas station. The officer saw a man who fit the description that had been given to the officer walking along carrying a small brown suitcase. The man noticed the squad car, dropped the suitcase and attempted to flee. A backup squad car had arrived and that officer stopped the man while the first officer retrieved the suitcase. A firearm, later identified as a Norinco 7.62 X 39 mm semi-automatic rifle, was found inside the suitcase. The firearm was not loaded and there was no ammunition in the suitcase. The police arrested the man, who was later identified as Wind.
Wind was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The government at trial alleged that Wind had three prior violent felony convictions for purposes of sentence enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Wind has burglary convictions from 1985, 1987, and 1990. Burglary is considered a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii). Wind was found guilty by a jury, and the district court sentenced him to fifteen years in prison, the minimum mandatory sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), four years supervised release and a special assessment of $50.00. The district court rejected Wind's argument that his prior convictions for which he had had his civil rights restored could not be counted for sentence enhancement purposes because the restoration of rights did not contain an express limitation on fi