United States v. Eric Ruska

NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judge.

Eric Scott Ruska appeals his sentence of life imprisonment to the extent that the district court imposed it under the federal three strikes statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3559 (c). For the following reasons, we affirm.

I

In 2002, Ruska drove a nineteen-year-old woman down a two-track road in rural Michigan. He then stopped the car and revealed he had a handgun. The woman asked him several times to take her home, but Ruska refused. Instead, he raped her three times. Although Ruska was first charged with three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, he pleaded guilty to a…