United States v. Michael Bedell

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

We decided this case by unpublished order on October 27. The defendant has now asked us to publish the portion of the order that decides whether the Illinois robbery statute defines a “crime of violence” for purposes of sentence enhancement under § 4B1.-1 of the federal sentencing guidelines, which deals with career offenders. We have decided to grant the motion and issue as an opinion a somewhat amplified version of' the relevant part of the order, because the issue could recur.

In deciding whether a previous conviction, which the government wants to use to increase the…