Legal Opinion
United States v. Carolyn Kay Poff
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 14, 1991No. 89-3017PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge,
with whom BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS, WOOD, Jr., RIPPLE, and KANNE, Circuit Judges, join.
Can a “crime of violence” also be a “nonviolent offense”? We heard this case en banc to answer this seemingly straightforward question. The career offender provision of the Sentencing Guidelines defines a “crime of violence” as, inter alia, any offense that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.” U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(l)(i); see also 18 U.S.C. § 16 (progenitor of the Guideline definition). The Guidelines also…
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3Cited by158 opinions
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