Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis Dewayne PLEMONS Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-07-24
Citations: 693 F. App'x 435
Docket Number: No. 15-6076
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis Dewayne PLEMONS Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: BATCHELDER and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; LEVY, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 693
Pages: 435–435

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis Dewayne PLEMONS Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-6076
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Filed July 24, 2017
Luke A. McLaurin, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Knoxville, TN, for Plaintiff-Ap-pellee
Laura E. Davis, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Defender Services, Knoxville, TN, for Defendant-Appellant
Before: BATCHELDER and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; LEVY, District Judge.
The Honorable Judith E. Levy, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
In 2014, Dennis Plemons pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court found that Plemons had three prior convictions for violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18' U.S.C. § 924(e), which triggered a mandatory-minimum sentence of 15 years. One of those convictions was for Tennessee aggravated burglary, Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-403. At the time of Plemons's sentencing, that crime constituted a violent felony for purposes of the ACCA under our decision in United States v. Nance, 481 F.3d 882 (6th Cir. 2007). In United States v. Stitt, however, we overruled Nance and held that a conviction for Tennessee aggravated burglary is not a violent felony under the ACCA. 860 F.3d 854 (6th Cir. 2017) (en banc). Plemons's conviction for that offense therefore was not a violent felony under the ACCA. We vacate Plemons's sentence and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.