Legal Opinion
United States v. Kelvin Ford
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 29, 2007No. 05-4998PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Kelvin Ford of participating in the robbery of two New Jersey banks on June 11, 2003 and June 12, 2003. The District Court sentenced him to 460 months of incarceration for these offenses. He now appeals two issues relating to his conviction and sentence. 1 First, Ford asserts that the District Court abused its discretion in permitting the testimony of the Government’s shoeprint expert. Second, Ford challenges the application of the Career Offender provision in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B 1.1(a).
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According to the evidence established at Ford’s…
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