# United States v. Isaac Seabrooks

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · October 19, 2016 · 839 F.3d 1326

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9837430

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Isaac SEABROOKS, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** October 19, 2016
- **Citations:** 839 F.3d 1326; 2016 WL 6090860
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Baldock
- **Judges:** Hull, Null, Martin, Baldock
- **Nature of suit:** NEW
- **Cited by:** 81 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a defendant’s 1995 armed robbery conviction under Fla. Stat. § 812.13 categorically qualifies as a “violent felony” under the ACCA
- stating that “knowledge . . . arising after the initiation of the offense may be sufficient to support an aiding and abetting conviction”
- declining to determine if a robbery statute was divisible because the conviction qualified as a violent felony even if it was indivisible

## Opinion text

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge,
concurring as to Parts I, II, and III.D, and in the . judgment:
I concur in Parts I, II, and III.D of the Court’s opinion. But the remainder of Part III of the opinion gives me pause. All members of the panel agree that United States v. Lockley, 632 F.3d 1238 (11th Cir. 2011), answers in the affirmative the question of whether Defendant qualifies as an armed career criminal for federal sentencing purposes. That prior precedent is controlling on this panel with or without United States v. Dowd, 451 F.3d 1244 (11th Cir. 2006). Accordingly, unlike my Eleventh Circuit colleagues, I would resolve the sentencing issue in this ease on the basis of Lockley alone and leave for another day the question of the continuing viability of Dowd.

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