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Sentencing Guidelines

By: Derek Hawkins//April 8, 2019//

Sentencing Guidelines

By: Derek Hawkins//April 8, 2019//

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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

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Derek A Hawkins is trademark corporate counsel for Harley-Davidson. Hawkins oversees the prosecution and maintenance of the Harley-Davidson’s international trademark portfolio in emerging markets.

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