United States v. Jerome Wilson

OPINION OF THE COURT

JORDAN, Circuit Judge

If it were somehow in doubt before, we take the opportunity now to hold that bank robbery by intimidation is, categorically a “crime of violence” under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. In doing so, we join several other federal courts of appeals that have held the same under the guidelines or the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”).

Jerome Wilson pled guilty to unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a). The District Court imposed a prison sentence that was in part a result of the guidelines’ career-offender enhancement, U.S.S.G. §…