Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga;
No. 1:19-cr-00161-1—Curtis L. Collier, District Judge.
Argued: May 4, 2022
Decided and Filed: July 12, 2022
Before: KETHLEDGE, STRANCH, and NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. In United States v. Mitchell, 743 F.3d 1054, 1059 (6th Cir.
2014), we held that robbery as defined under Tennessee law is a “violent felony” as defined by
the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA” or “the Act”). 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B). Here, based
in part on that holding, the district court sentenced Randy Belcher to a 15-year mandatory-minimum sentence under the Act. Belcher now argues that two somewhat recent Supreme Court
decisions—Elonis v. United States, 575 U.S. 723 (2015), and Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct.
1817 (2021)—undermine our holding in Mitchell. We disagree and affirm the district court. |