United States v. Strevel

Appellant challenges his sentences of imprisonment for structuring transactions to evade IRS reporting requirements on two grounds. First, appellant contends that the district court erred in calculating his criminal history category by treating as a conviction a bond forfeiture in a DUI case brought in a Georgia court. This contention is meritless; under Georgia law, a bond forfeiture in a DUI case is considered a conviction. See Cofer v. Crowell, 146 Ga.App. 639, 247 S.E.2d 152, 154 (1978); cf. Haley v. Hardison, 247 Ga. 750, 279 S.E.2d 712, 713 (1981).

Second, appellant contends that the…