Legal Opinion
Israel Ramirez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 2015No. 13-3889PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
- In 2008 Israel Ramirez pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana with intent to distribute. His presentence investigation report classified him as a career offender based on two earlier state convictions for assault. Despite the fact that his convictions were for “intentional, knowing, or reckless” assault, counsel did not object to the PSR’s characterization, and the district court sentenced Ramirez as a career offender. In so doing, the court treated, the Texas convictions as crimes of violence under U.S.S.G. • § 4B1.2(a)(2)’s residual clause, which defines as a “crime of…
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