United States v. Victor Shunta Baker (01-6260) Henry Lee Tate, Jr. (01-6313) and Jason Brian Patterson (01-6314)

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Victor Shunta Baker, Henry Lee Tate, Jr., and Jason Brian Patterson appeal, their sentences of over twenty years of imprisonment for interstate robbery and attendant firearms offenses. The district court enhanced their sentences under the guidelines for infliction of significant injury on a security guard that they shot. In addition, the district court departed upward from the guidelines because the guard’s arm had to be amputated as a result of the injuries they inflicted and because of the particularly heinous and cruel nature of their conduct. Appellants contend…