SCOTUS to Review Challenge to Federal Gun Law

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a habitual felon’s challenge to the sentence he received under Armed Career Criminal Act.  Alexandra Jones & Tim Ryan of Courthouse News report that in Borden v. United States, a criminal with three prior convictions for aggravated assault, claims that the nine-year sentence he received as a felon in possession of a firearm under the Act violated his right to due process.  The Act defines crimes involving a “reckless trigger” as crimes of violence subject to sentence enhancements.  Borden argues that a divide among the federal circuits on Act’s enforcement required a Supreme Court review of his constitutional challenge.   The case will be argued this fall.