Tracy Shipman v. United States

BRENNAN, Circuit Judge.

Tracy Shipman appeals the district court's denial of his petition for collateral postconviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 . When Shipman pleaded guilty to drug charges in 2003, the district court sentenced him under the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines. Because Shipman had three prior "crime of violence" felony convictions, the district court sentenced him as a "career offender." U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 (2002). The career-offender provision of the Guidelines defined a "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1)-(2). Two passages in that guideline are at issue here:…