Opinion ID: 1073
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Second TrialStipulation (2007), Conviction (2007), Sentencing (2008), and Appeal (2008)

Text: At trial, the parties stipulated to the fact that, prior to July 25, 2004, Charlton was convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. The jury trial concluded after seven days on December 10, 2007, resulting in the conviction of Charlton. A presentence investigation report (PSI report), dated May 6, 2008, documented Charlton's prior criminal history, including three felony convictions under Massachusetts law. Concluding that these convictions subsumed either a violent felony or an applicable serious drug offense committed on occasions different from one another, the probation officer who prepared the PSI report recommended that Charlton be sentenced as an armed career criminala classification that would trigger a fifteen-year minimum sentence. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Absent that classification, Charlton's total offense level and prior criminal history would have placed him in a lower guidelines sentencing range and, therefore, probably would have yielded a lesser sentence than the district court imposed on him. On June 9, 2008, the district court, observing that Charlton had quite a few prior convictions, sentenced Charlton to a term of imprisonment of 204 months, sixty months of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Judgment was entered on June 11, 2008. Five days later, Charlton filed his timely notice of appeal. Charlton challenges both the peremptory challenges the government exercised in the process of jury empanelment and the imposition of the ACCA.