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This document summarizes a United States Court of Appeals case. Franklin Smith Jr. pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a weapon and was sentenced as an armed career criminal to 15 years minimum based on prior convictions. Smith argued this violated Blakely because it was a judicial finding not admitted or found by a jury. The court affirmed the sentence, finding prior precedent that judicial fact finding of prior convictions does not violate the 6th Amendment under Booker, and that armed career cr

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