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 | | United States, 444 U.S. Indeed, given the settled construction of repeat offender provisions, it is hardly surprising that Congressman Poff, who proposed the floor amendment that became 924(c), felt it unnecessary to elaborate further. |
 | | Convicted in two [508 U.S. 129, 140] separate trials, the defendant was sentenced in each for bank robbery, and in each to 10 years under 924(c), then the maximum authorized term for a first-time offender. |
 | | Between 1968, when the statute was enacted, and 1987, when textualism replaced common sense in its interpretation, the bench and bar seem to have understood that this provision applied to defendants who, having once been convicted under 924(c), "failed to learn their lessons from the initial punishment" and committed a repeat offense. |
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