The Supreme Court ruled unanimously this morning that a burglar’s 10 convictions that arose from a single criminal episode do not count as multiple convictions that justify a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act for a subsequent criminal conviction involving violence. The often-litigated federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) requires that a 15-year minimum sentence be imposed on individuals found guilty of illegally possessing a firearm who have three or more prior convictions for a violent felony such as burglary “committed on occasions different from one another.” A violent felony is defined by the statute as one that necessarily involves “the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.” The court’s March 7 opinion (pdf) in Wooden v. U.S., court file 20-5279, was written by Justice Elena Kagan. The case is an appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th …