United States v. William McBride, Jr.

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

William McBride signed a plea agreement after being charged in five jurisdictions with six counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d). The agreement included an “understandfing]” that McBride would be sentenced as a career offender because “he ha[d] at least two prior crime of violence convictions.” See USSG § 4Bl.l(a). The presentence report recommended designating McBride a career offender based on two prior convictions for bank robbery, also in violation of § 2113. McBride’s sentencing memorandum asked the court to depart downward from the…