United States Ninth Circuit

In a case challenging an enhanced sentence under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline Manual, sentence is affirmed where use of a fake bomb during a bank robbery constitutes "a dangerous weapon. . .otherwise used" and thus a four level sentence increase under U.S.S.G. section 2B3.1(b)(2)(D) and consideration of defendant's past crimes was not unreasonable in calculating a category VI criminal history.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/05/2008
• Decided 09/05/2008
• Published 09/05/2008

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:, Before KIM McLANE WARDLAW and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and JEREMY D. FOGEL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Sean K. Kennedy, Gia Kim, Federal Public Defenders, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellant Frederick Bendtzen., Thomas P. O'Brien, Christine C. Ewell, Christopher K. Lui, United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellee United States of America.