United States v. Richard Bell

After Richard Bell pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the district court 1 sentenced him to eighty-four months in prison and three years of supervised release. Bell renews on appeal the objection he raised below: that his offense level should not have been enhanced under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(b)(5) (2001) for possessing the firearm in connection with another felony offense. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

The unobjected-to facts in the presen-tence report show that, when authorities executed a…