United States Ninth Circuit

The district court properly found that defendant does not qualify for career offender status since his conviction for attempting to elude a police vehicle is not a "crime of violence" within the meaning of the US Sentencing Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/03/2004
• Decided 09/06/2005
• Published 09/06/2005

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before ALARCÓN W. FLETCHER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas O. Rice, Office of the United States Attorney, Spokane, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kimberly Deate, Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho, Spokane, WA, for the defendant-appellee.