Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles P. NAYLOR, II, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-03-28
Citations: 682 F. App'x 511
Docket Number: No. 16-2047
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles P. NAYLOR, II, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before RILEY, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 682
Pages: 511–514

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles P. NAYLOR, II, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-2047
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: November 18, 2016
Filed: March 28, 2017
Daniel P. Goldberg, Research and Writing Specialist, Office of the Fed. Public Defender, Kansas City, MO (Laine Car-darella, Fed. Public Defender, Todd M. Schultz, Asst Fed. Public Defender, on the brief), for appellant.
Alison D., Dunning, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO (Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.
Before RILEY, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
. The Honorable William Jay Riley stepped down as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at the close of business on March 10, 2017. He has been succeeded by the Honorable Lavenski R. Smith.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Charles P. Naylor, II, pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C., § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the government argued that Naylor was an armed career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) because he had multiple prior Missouri convictions for second-degree burglary. The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), provides for a minimum fifteen-year term of imprisonment for a person convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm if the person has three prior convictions for a "violent felony" as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B). Over Naylor's objection, the district court found that Naylor's Missouri second-degree burglary convictions were predicate violent felonies, and sentenced Naylor to the mandatory minimum fifteen-year term of imprisonment. Naylor's plea agreement preserved his right to appeal the court's determination that Missouri second-degree burglary is a predicate violent felony.
Missouri's second-degree burglary statute, Mo. Rev. Stat. § 569.170(1), enumerates "at least two alternative elements: burglary 'of a building' and burglary of 'an inhabitable structure,' separated in the text by the disjunctive 'or.' " United States v. Sykes, 844 F.3d 712, 715 (8th Cir. 2016) (citing Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 2243, 2256, 195 L.Ed.2d 604 (2016)). Therefore, § 569.170(1) is divisible, and we apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether Naylor's convictions pursuant to § 569.170(1) match the generic description of burglary. See id. Documents underlying Naylor's Missouri second-degree burglary convictions indicate that they stemmed from burglaries of buildings. Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 2276, 2281, 186 L.Ed.2d 438 (2013) (courts may "consult a limited class of documents" when applying the modified categorical approach). Nay-lor's Missouri second-degree burglary convictions therefore match the generic definition of burglary and are predicate violent felonies for purposes of the ACCA. See Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 598, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990); Sykes, 844 F.3d at 715. Accordingly, we affirm.
. The Honorable Beth Phillips, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.
.The relevant version of the statute reads: "A person commits the crime of burglary in the second degree when he knowingly enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or inhabitable structure for the purpose of committing a crime therein." Mo. Rev. Stat. § 569.170(1) (amended Jan. 1, 2017).