Legal Opinion
United States v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 8, 2017No. 15-1764PPublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Keyon Taylor (“Taylor”) shot and beat a postal worker, and then hijacked his truck in a botched robbery scheme. The ordeal finally came to an end when the worker popped the truck’s rear gate and jumped out of the moving vehicle to try and save his own skin. Taylor was convicted of multiple federal crimes arising from this episode, then sentenced to just shy of thirty years in prison. Taylor now appeals. We affirm on all points but one: Taylor’s Guidelines sentencing range was incorrectly calculated, and so we remand for the limited purpose of permitting the trial court…
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