By: Derek Hawkins//April 8, 2019//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Steve Briggins
Case No.: 18-1921
Officials: MANION, BRENNAN, and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Sentencing Guidelines
In 2017 Steve Briggins was convicted of robbing multiple banks over several months. This was not Briggins’s first foray into bank robbery. Eighteen years earlier, in 1999, Briggins was convicted of and sentenced for ten bank robberies he committed over a span of a few months. When the district court sentenced Briggins for the 2017 robberies, it accounted for the 1999 robberies in calculating his criminal history points under the Sentencing Guidelines. Briggins now appeals, contending that the district court, when determining his advisory sentencing range, improperly determined his criminal history category by imposing too many criminal history points for the 1999 robberies. Seeing no error, we affirm.
Affirmed