United States Second Circuit

Because escape amounts to a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e), the district court properly sentenced defendant as an armed career criminal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/22/2002
• Published 08/23/2002

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before JACOBS, LEVAL, KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Miriam H. Baer, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (James B. Comey, United States Attorney, and Celeste L. Koeleveld, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan Svetkey, Watters & Svetkey, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellee.