United States Sixth Circuit

District court's imposition of a sentence of 86 months' imprisonment on a defendant convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed where: 1) although defendant's reckless-endangerment conviction was not a crime of violence, defendant's evading-arrest offense was a crime of violence; and 2) the district court did not err in applying a four-level enhancement under the Guidelines in finding that, by preponderance of the evidence, the defendant used or possessed a firearm in connection with a felony chop-shop offense.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/03/2009
• Decided 02/08/2010
• Published 02/08/2010

Judges

• Before GRIFFIN and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; CARR, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Mary Catherine Jermann-Robinson, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant. G. Kirby May, Assistant United States Attorney, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:Mary Catherine Jermann-Robinson, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant. G. Kirby May, Assistant United States Attorney, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee.