BOSTON - A Mattapan man was re-sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for a federal firearm offense.
Terrance Moon, 50, was re-sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to time served of approximately 80 months in prison. In October 2013, Moon was sentenced to 220 months in prison after he was convicted by a federal jury of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. In February 2011, Moon was charged with illegally possessing a Sturm, Ruger & Co, model Service-Six,.357 caliber revolver and six rounds of.357 ammunition.
Moon’s sentencing was revisited as a result of a 2015 United States Supreme Court decision, Johnson v. United States, in which the definition of “violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) was deemed unconstitutionally vague. Moon received his original 220-month sentence based on the ACCA, which provides for enhanced sentences of at least 15 years in prison for defendants convicted of certain firearms possession offenses who have at least three prior felony convictions for violent felonies and/or serious drug offenses. As a result of the Johnson decision and a recent First Circuit case holding that Massachusetts robbery does not satisfy the remaining part of the “violent felony" definition, Moon’s prior sentence was vacated and he was re-sentenced to a non-ACCA sentence.
Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb and Mickey D. Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, Boston Field Division, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Richardson of Weinreb’s Major Crimes Unit prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
