Nichols v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1994-06-06

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Justice Ginsburg, dissenting. In Custis v. United States, ante, p. 485, the Court held that, with the sole exception of convictions obtained in violation of the right to counsel, a defendant in a federal sentencing proceeding has no right to attack collaterally a prior state conviction used to enhance his sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984. This case is dispositively differen…

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