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Juvenile conviction can be considered during career criminal sentencing (access required)

By: Allison McAndrew
Published: August 13, 2010

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A defendant's juvenile conviction for assault may be considered in determining whether he was an armed career criminal under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, the 6th Circuit has ruled. The 31-year-old defendant also had two adult convictions for drug offenses. He argued that because his juvenile records were required by law to be destroyed when ...
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