UNITED STATES v. KNIGHT (2019)

SUMMARY ORDER

Antoine Knight appeals from a judgment entered September 20, 2017 convicting him, following a plea of guilty, of one count of possession of a firearm following a felony conviction in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). The district court sentenced Knight principally to a term of 80 months’ imprisonment. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.

Knight argues that we should vacate his sentence because the district court improperly applied a 10-level enhancement under § 2K2.1(a) of the November 2016 edition of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”). According to Knight, the 10-level enhancement was improper because neither third-degree New York robbery nor second-degree New York robbery that “causes physical injury” is a “crime of violence” under § 4B1.2(a) of the Guidelines. But Knight’s argument is foreclosed by this Court’s recent decision in United States v. Pereira-Gomez, which stated that all degrees of New York robbery and attempted robbery qualify as crimes of violence under an identically-worded provision of the November 1, 2014 edition of the Guidelines, see 903 F.3d 155, 166 (2d Cir. 2018); compare Application Note 1(B)(iii) of § 2L1.2 of the November 2014 U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (defining a crime of violence to include any state law offense that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another”), with § 4B1.2(a) of the November 2016 U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (defining a crime of violence as a felony that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another”).

We have considered Knight’s remaining contentions on appeal and have found in them no basis for vacatur. Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.