Opinion ID: 151997
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Text: On July 9, 2004, Johnson was convicted by a jury of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He was thereafter sentenced principally to 262 months' imprisonment. In calculating Johnson's sentence, the District Court determined that Johnson had been convicted of a violent felony on three prior occasions. Because he was being sentenced for possession of a firearm in violation of § 922(g), those prior convictions for violent felonies rendered Johnson an armed career criminal for purposes of the ACCA. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). [1] Johnson did not object at sentencing to the District Court's finding that he qualified as an armed career criminal. Johnson timely appealed from the judgment entering his conviction and imposing his sentence. We affirmed his conviction but, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), we remanded for resentencing pursuant to United States v. Fagans, 406 F.3d 138 (2d Cir.2005) (holding that a defendant who preserves a Sixth Amendment claim is entitled to resentencing in light of Booker ). See United States v. Johnson, 265 Fed. Appx. 8 (2d Cir.2008). In our summary order affirming Johnson's conviction, we noted that we did not reach many of defendant's sentencing challenges because of our decision to remand. Id. at 11. We did, however, consider Johnson's objection to the District Court's finding that he qualified as an armed career criminal under the terms of § 924(e)(1) and we held that the District Court's finding was not plain error. Id. (While not every conceivable instance of rioting in a correctional facility necessarily poses a serious risk of potential injury to others, in the ordinary case, the conduct encompassed by the crime does present such a risk.). On remand for resentencing in the District Court, defendant argued that he should not be sentenced pursuant to the ACCA because one of his predicate convictionsnamely, rioting at a correctional institution in violation of Conn. Gen.Stat. § 53a-179bwas not for a violent felony within the meaning of the ACCA. [2] The District Court disagreed, and once again calculated Johnson's Guidelines sentence range in accordance with its finding that he qualified as an armed career criminal. The Court imposed a below-Guidelines sentence of 240 months' imprisonment. On appeal, defendant argues that the District Court erred in sentencing him as an armed career criminal.