United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is affirmed where the offense of physically stealing from a person was squarely within the ambit of the crimes of violence that U.S.S.G. section 4B1.2(a) was intended to include -- prior felonies that evidenced a greater danger to society if the felon subsequently possessed a firearm.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/08/2010
• Published 01/08/2010

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dean John Sauer, U.S. Attorney‘s Office, St. Louis, MO, Keith D. Sorrell, U.S. Attorney's Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Robert Charles Hennecke, III, Bonne Terre, MO, Scott Tilsen, Assistant, Federal Public Defender's Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Defendant-Appellant.