United States Second Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is affirmed where: 1) the modified categorical approach applicable in the Second Circuit to prior convictions for statutory offenses also applied to prior convictions for state common law crimes; and 2) defendant's prior South Carolina "strong arm robbery" conviction was a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. section 2K2.1(a)(2).

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/05/2010
• Decided 02/18/2010
• Published 02/18/2010

Judges

• ELLIS, District Judge:, Before FEINBERG and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, ELLIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jenny R. Chou (James I. Glasser, on the brief), Wiggin and Dana LLP, New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellant., Tanisha R. Simon, Assistant United States Attorney (Susan Corkery, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.