Sentencing – Sentencing Guidelines

By: Derek Hawkins//June 20, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Randall Jennings

Case No.: 16-2861

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and KANNE and ROVNER, Cir‐ cuit Judges

Focus: Sentencing – Sentencing Guidelines

Defendant Randall Jennings pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court found that Jennings’ prior convictions in Minnesota for simple robbery and felony domestic assault constituted convictions for crimes of violence for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), and the parallel provision of the Sentencing Guidelines. Consequently, Jennings was subject to a 15-year statutory minimum prison term along with an enhanced Guidelines offense level and criminal history categorization. Jennings appeals, contending that neither simple robbery nor domestic assault, as Minnesota defines those crimes, qualify as a crime of violence. We affirm.

Affirmed

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