United States Seventh Circuit

Sentencing of a defendant convicted of bank robbery as a career offender under the Sentencing Guidelines is vacated and remanded for resentencing as a conviction for escape under 18 U.S.C. section 751(a), as a categorical matter, is not a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2008
• Decided 08/25/2009
• Published 08/25/2009

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew S. Boutros (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Heather L. Winslow (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.