United States v. Ronald Cooks

RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Defendant Ronald Cooks appeals his conviction and sentence on one count of assaulting, resisting, and/or impeding federal officers while engaged in the performance of official duties, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1) and (b). For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I

On September 17, 2008, defendant, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary (USP), Big Sandy, got involved in a confrontation with three other inmates in a corridor of the facility and was charged with inflicting bodily injury on one or more federal officers who intervened. Specifically,…