Opinion ID: 2981720
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Heading: Evading Arrest

Text: Turning to Brown’s evading-arrest conviction, after the district court sentenced Brown, we held in Doyle that the lesser-included version of Tennessee Code section 39-16-603(b) qualifies as a violent felony for purposes of punishment enhancement under the ACCA. 678 F.3d at 432–33; accord United States v. Rogers, 481 F. App’x 250 (6th Cir. 2012). If the lesser-serious Class E felony qualifies as a violent felony, then the Class D felony version—which includes as an element that the “flight or attempt to elude creates a risk of death or injury to innocent bystanders or other third parties”—necessarily does as well. Brown’s evading-arrest conviction therefore qualifies as a violent felony for purposes of punishment enhancement under the ACCA.