United States v. Mendez

SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.

Armando Mendez appeals the sentence imposed after he pled guilty in 2018 to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms. On appeal, he contends his sentence was improperly inflated because the district court held that a prior conviction for attempted robbery in Colorado qualified as a "crime of violence" under § 4B1.2(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G." or "the guidelines"). We affirm.

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Mr. Mendez entered an unconditional guilty plea but objected to the probation *1124 officer's presentence report, which calculated a…