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Second-Degree Escape Considered Violent for ACCA Sentence Enhancement Purposes

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Escapes, Sentencing, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Location: Tennessee.

Tennessee federal prisoner Collis Lancaster, Jr., appealed his sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) after the court classified a prior second-degree escape in Kentucky as a violent offense. His sentence was affirmed because an escape was considered "violent" for ACCA enhancement purposes.

Lancaster pled guilty to felonious …

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