United States v. Warren Allen Dittrich

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

This is a prosecution for armed robbery of a United States Postal Substation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §' 2114(a). The defendant, Warren Allen Dittrich, was convicted after a jury trial. The government then proceeded against him at sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), which requires a mandatory sentence of life in prison for certain violent felons. The District Court 1 found that Ditt-rich had been convicted of three “serious violent felonies” within the meaning of that statute, including the instant offense and two previous convictions, and, therefore,…