Chambers v. United States, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 687, 2009 WL 63882 (Jan. 13, 2009) (Illinois conviction of "knowingly fail[ing] to report" for periodic imprisonment "to the Jefferson County Jail, a penal institution", in violation of Ill. Comp. Stat., ch. 720, 5/31-6(a), did not categorically constitute a "violent felony" for purposes of applying the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory prison term enhancement of sentence for a conviction of being a felon unlawfully in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), because it does not have "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another, a does not involve conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another), following Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 602, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990); see also Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13, 16-17, 125 S.Ct. 1254, 161 L.Ed.2d 205 (2005).

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