Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas M. Thigpen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 2006No. 05-1866PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
In October 2003, Douglas Thigpen robbed a TCF Bank branch in a Jewel grocery store in Glendale Heights, Illinois. He threatened a teller and escaped with $2,204 in cash. Thigpen eventually was caught and pleaded guilty to bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a).
At sentencing, the district court found that Thigpen had three prior convictions that qualified him for the application of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 (2004). Specifically, the court determined that a 1990 conviction for robbery and a 1999 conviction for aggravated battery constituted…
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