United States v. Freddy Rosas

Freddy Rosas was convicted of drug and gun crimes and sentenced as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 to a total of 262 months imprisonment, based in part on his prior Wisconsin conviction for fleeing a police officer. In this appeal Rosas argues that he is not a career offender because, he says, his conviction for fleeing a police officer is not a qualifying “crime of violence.” Like the district court, however, we conclude that United States v. Howze, 343 F.3d 919, 921 (7th Cir.2003), compels the conclusion that under the Wisconsin statute at issue, fleeing a. police officer is…