United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is vacated where a conviction under a statute proscribing grossly negligent conduct, even though it involves an intentional and potentially dangerous act, was not a "crime of violence" within the meaning of U.S.S.G. section 4B1.2(a).

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/03/2010
• Decided 05/03/2010
• Published 05/03/2010

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, RAYMOND C. FISHER and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer J. Uyeda, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Angela Sanneman, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.