United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for illegal reentry into the U.S. is affirmed where an attempted robbery under California law is coextensive with the same offense at common law, and therefore the California offense was a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/14/2009
• Decided 08/21/2009
• Published 08/21/2009

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  STEPHEN REINHARDT, EUGENE E. SILER, JR., and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael K. Powell, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Reno, NV, for the defendant-appellant., Gregory Bower, United States Attorney, Robert L. Ellman, Appellate Chief, Elizabeth A. Olson and Ronald C. Rachow, Assistant United States Attorneys, Reno, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.