United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction under Washington's second-degree assault statute is a "crime of violence" for purposes of the Sentencing Guidelines career offender enhancement provision, U.S.S.G. section 4B1.1.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2007
• Published 05/15/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, RAYMOND C. FISHER and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald D. Ness, Port Orchard, WA, for the defendant-appellant., John McKay, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Tacoma, WA;  Kent Liu, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Tacoma, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.