Legal Opinion
United States v. Ball
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 30, 2017No. 16-1526PPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Lonnie Ball challenges the district court’s enhancement of his sentence under the career offender guideline based on the court’s determination that Ball’s prior conviction for Pennsylvania second-degree robbery qualifies as a “crime of violence” as defined in § 4B1.2(a) of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual (U.S.S.G.) (U.S. Sentencing Comm’n 2015). 1 The parties, operating under the assumption that the so-called “residual clause” of the crime of violence definition was void, trained their arguments on the “force clause” of that definition. When intervening…
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