United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for fatally stabbing a fellow inmate in broad daylight at the recreation yard of a federal penitentiary is affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court erred in refusing to admit evidence tending to show the stabbing was committed by another inmate; and 2) the court erred in concluding that multiple armed robberies committed during a 1994 crime spree were unrelated crimes, thus making him eligible for sentencing as a career offender.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/17/2007
• Published 05/18/2007

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL, BALDOCK, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Howard A. Pincus, Assistant Federal Public Defender, (Raymond P. Moore, Federal Public Defender, with him on the briefs) Office of the Federal Public Defender, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant., Andrew A. Vogt, Assistant United States Attorney (Troy A. Eid, United States Attorney, David M. Conner, Assistant United States Attorney, Gregory Holloway, Assistant United States Attorney, and John M. Hutchins, Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Office of the United States Attorney, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.