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U.S. Supreme Court opinion: March 7 Monday, March 7, 2022

The United States Supreme Court has issued an opinion in a sentencing case. The court held that a defendant's ten burglary offenses arising from a single criminal episode did not occur on different “occasions” and thus count as only one prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Read the court's opinion in Wooden v. United Stateshttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-5279_09m1.pdf