United States v. Christopher Bissonette

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Christopher Bissonette argues that under the plain meaning of § 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, he should not have been sentenced as a career offender — which shows the degree to which “plain meaning” is in the eye of the beholder.

When a bystander tried to stop a bar fight Bissonette was involved in, Bisso-nette pulled out a knife and stabbed the man, inflicting a one-inch stab wound to his abdomen. Because Bissonette is a Native American and the fight was in Keshe-na, Wisconsin, which is in the Menominee Indian Reservation, he was charged in…