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Taylor v. United States 495 U.S. 575 (1990) filled an important gap in the federal criminal law of sentencing. The federal criminal code does not contain a definition of many crimes including burglary the crime at issue in this case. Yet sentencing enhancements applicable to federal crimes allow for the enhancement of a defendant’s sentence if he has been convicted of prior felonies. The question the U.S.