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Criminal Law: Bank Robbery-Career Offender-Guidelines Enhancement
Staff Report//June 3, 2019
Defendant pleaded guilty to bank robbery. The district court concluded defendant was a career offender, based on two prior federal bank robbery convictions, and imposed a two-level guidelines enhancement to sentence defendant to a within-guidelines range sentence of 151 months’ imprisonment.
Where bank robbery by intimidation qualified as a crime of violence, the district court did not err in classifying defendant as a career offender or in imposing a two-level guidelines enhancement.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Smith (MLW No. 73282/Case No. 18-3292 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas, Hickey, J.
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