Case: 09-60006 Document: 00511179830 Page: 1 Date Filed: 07/20/2010
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
FILED
July 20, 2010
No. 09-60006
Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
CHARLES EDWARD SPARKMAN, also known as Edward Charles Sparkman,
also known as Popa Charlie,
Defendant-Appellant
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Mississippi
USDC No. 3:06-CR-200-1
Before JOLLY, WIENER, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Charles Edward Sparkman was convicted of being a felon in possession
of a firearm. United States v. Sparkman, 289 F. App’x 12, 13 (5th Cir. 2008),
cert. denied, 129 S. Ct. 939 (2009). We affirmed Sparkman’s conviction but
remanded the case for resentencing because Sparkman had not been adequately
warned about the disadvantages of representing himself at sentencing. Id. On
remand, Sparkman was represented by counsel and sentenced to 294 months
*
Pursuant to 5TH CIR . R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .
R. 47.5.4.
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of imprisonment and a five-year term of supervised release. Sparkman now
appeals that sentence.
Sparkman was sentenced as an armed career criminal pursuant to 18
U.S.C. § 924(e). He argues that neither his 1990 conviction for armed robbery,
his 1984 conviction for house burglary, nor his 1988 conviction for burglary of an
occupied dwelling were violent felonies that qualified as predicate convictions for
the enhancement. Because Sparkman concedes that he has two other such
predicate convictions, the enhancement was appropriate if any one of the three
convictions at issue was a qualifying conviction. See § 924(e). Employing a
categorical approach, see Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 602 (1990), and
looking only to the documents approved by Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S.
13, 16 (2005), we conclude that each of the challenged convictions was a
qualifying predicate conviction that supported the enhancement. See Taylor,
495 U.S. at 598, 602.
Sparkman’s brief includes additional arguments that the district court
erred in applying offense level enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1 and 3C1.1
because the facts supporting those enhancements had not been proven beyond
a reasonable doubt to a jury. However, because Sparkman’s sentence was the
result of the armed career criminal enhancement, the district court’s
determinations with respect to the § 2K2.1 and § 3C1.1 enhancements are
irrelevant. Accordingly, we do not reach these arguments.
AFFIRMED.
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