Court Opinion

ID: 9484020
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:38:29.980278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:58.455555
License: Public Domain

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I concur in the dissent of Judge Jones. I cannot join in an opinion which states, “we believe that offenses committed by a defendant at different times and places and against different victims, although committed within less than an hour of each other, are separate and distinct criminal episodes and that convictions for those crimes should be counted as separate predicate convictions under § 924(e)(1).” United States v. Brady, 914 F.2d 258 (6th Cir.1993) (en bane). If this is what Congress intended, this is what Congress should have said. Because Congress did not say clearly that was the statutory intent, I cannot join in the conclusion that there is no ambiguity in section 924(e)(1).