Legal Opinion
United States v. Alvin James Pierce
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 10, 2002No. 00-4701PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge WILKINS joined. Judge GREGORY wrote a dissenting opinion.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge.
We are presented with the single issue of whether Alvin Pierce’s prior conviction for taking indecent liberties with a child, in violation of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 14-202.1, constitutes a predicate “crime of violence” for purposes of enhancing his sentence in the instant case as a “career offender” under the Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. Applying a categorical approach to the determination of career-offender…
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