The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on March 7 that a burglar’s 10 convictions that arose from a single criminal episode don’t 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 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 Circuit. William …