District court’s imposition of an enhanced offense level on a defendant in holding that he is a career offender, convicted of drug trafficking and related crimes, is affirmed but on alternate ground that defendant’s prior conviction for resisting arrest, a categorical crime of violence, provided the second predicate offense to his designation as a career offender.
Read US v. Stinson, No. 08-1717
Appellate Information
On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Opinion Filed January 14, 2010
Judges
Before: Sloviter, Ambro, and Jordan, Circuit Judges
Opinion by Circuit Judge Sloviter
Counsel:
For Appellant: Thomas F. Burke
For Appellee: Laurie Magid, Acting US Attorney, Robert A. Zauzmer and Maria M. Carrillo, Assistant US Attorneys
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