United States v. Hornsby

Primarily at issue is whether the sentencing guideline for kidnapping was the guideline most analogous to the offense conduct to which Michael Wayne Hornsby pleaded guilty — interstate domestic violence — and for which no guideline had been promulgated. Hornsby challenges his sentence on this and two other bases; we AFFIRM.

I

On June 13, 1995, in Brookeland, Texas, Hornsby approached his former girlfriend and asked to speak to her. When she refused, Hornsby choked her until she was unconscious, placed her in her automobile, and took her to Louisiana, where he was apprehended.

Hornsby was…