United States Third Circuit

Sentence for drug crimes and firearms possession is affirmed where: 1) defendant has been convicted of the two requisite crimes to qualify as a career offender, as his state law conviction for resisting arrest constitutes a crime of violence as that term is used in U.S.S.G. sec. 4B1.1(a); and 2) the district court properly considered the 18 U.S.C. sec. 3553 (a) sentencing factors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2009
• Published 07/28/2009

Judges

• Before:  SLOVITER, AMBRO, and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas F. Burke, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Laurie Magid, Acting United States Attorney, Robert A. Zauzmer, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of Appeals, Maria M. Carrillo, Assistant United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, Attorneys for Appellee.