James v. United States (2007)

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James v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 7, 2006 Decided April 18, 2007
Full case name	Alphonso James, Jr., Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	05-9264
Citations	550 U.S. 192 (more) 127 S. Ct. 1586; 167 L. Ed. 2d 532; 2007 U.S. LEXIS 4337; 75 U.S.L.W. 4230; 20 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 161
Case history
Prior	Conviction affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit, 430 F.3d 1150 (11th Cir. 2005); cert. granted, 547 U.S. ___ (2006).
Holding
Attempted burglary is a predicate felony under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Stevens, Ginsburg
Dissent	Thomas
Laws applied
18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)
Overruled by
Johnson v. United States (2015)

James v. United States, 550 U.S. 192 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that attempted burglary could serve as a predicate felony under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), which provided that a person convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm with three prior convictions for either serious drug offenses or violent felonies must be sentenced to a mandatory minimum 15-year prison term.