Enhancement of defendant’s sentence as a career offender reversed

US v. Sonnenberg, 09-2801, concerned a challenge to the district court’s imposition of an enhanced sentence in treating defendant as a career offender under the sentencing guidelines, in a prosecution of defendant for crack cocaine distribution conspiracy.  In vacating the sentence, the court remanded for resentencing as, under the Supreme Court’s decision in Begay v. US, 533 U.S. 137 (2008), defendant’s Minnesota conviction for “intra familial sexual abuse” does not qualify as a crime of violence within the meaning of U.S.S.G. section 4B1.1.

 

Related Link:

  • Read the Seventh Circuit’s Full Decision in US v. Sonnenberg, 09-2801

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