United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's bank robbery sentence is affirmed where defendant's prior Nevada convictions for robbery and attempted robbery categorically qualified as "crimes of violence" under U.S.S.G. section 4B1.2, and thus defendant was properly classified as a career offender.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/24/2009
• Published 07/24/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  BARRY G. SILVERMAN, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jason F. Carr, Federal Public Defender's Office, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendant-appellant., Peter S. Levitt, United States Attorney's Office, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellees.