United States Tenth Circuit

Any error in denying defendant's Daubert motion on the reliability of the underlying science and methods used to collect fingerprints was harmless, and the district court did not err in finding defendant's prior conviction for aggravated escape a "crime of violence" under the career offender sentencing guideline.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/02/2002
• Published 04/02/2002

Judges

• JOHN C. PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, PORFILIO and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Paul S. McCausland of Young, Bogle, McCausland, Wells & Blanchard, P.A., Wichita, KS, for Defendant-Appellant., Alan G. Metzger, Assistant United States Attorney (James E. Flory, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Wichita, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.