Legal Opinion
United States v. McDonald
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 2010No. 08-2703PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Dwayne McDonald pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon and on appeal challenges his sentence. The district court held that McDonald’s two prior Wisconsin convictions — one for first-degree reckless injury, Wis. Stat. § 940.23, and another for second-degree sexual assault of a child, id. § 948.02(2) — qualified as crimes of violence for purposes of § 2K2.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines. This substantially increased his total guidelines offense level and therefore his advisory guidelines sentencing range. Under Begay v. United States, 553 U.S.…
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