Legal Opinion
United States v. Virgil P. Rivers
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 20, 1995No. 820, Docket 94-1344PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
This appeal presents Sentencing Guidelines issues concerning the selection of a criminal history category and the extent of a permissible departure for a defendant classified as a career offender. The issues arise on an appeal by Virgil Rivers from the June 17, 1994, judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Raymond J. Dearie, Judge) convicting him, on his guilty plea, of bank robbery and firearm offenses. Rivers contends that the District Judge incorrectly counted his prior offenses when calculating his criminal history category and…
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