United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for escaping from a federal prison camp is affirmed where, even if the district court were incorrect in holding that an 18 U.S.C. section 751(a) conviction for a "walkaway escape" qualified as a crime of violence, the sentencing court's harmless error in applying the Sentencing Guidelines did not require a remand.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/16/2010
• Published 02/16/2010

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, MURPHY and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Katherine M. Menendez, AFPD, argued, Minneapolis, MN (Andrea K. George, AFPD, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kimberly A. Svendsen, AUSA, Minneapolis, MN, for appellee.