United States v. Shaun Chapman

OPINION

GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Shaun Chapman appeals the District Court’s application of the career offender enhancement to his sentence calculation under the United States Sentencing Guidelines (the “Guidelines”). ■ Chapman contends that his convictions-pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 876(c) do not qualify as crimes of violence. This appeal requires us to determine whether § 876(c)—which proscribes mailing a communication- containing a threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another —is a crime of violence, as defined by the Guidelines. Because we agree with .the District Court that…