United States v. Carolyn Kay Poff

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1991-02-14

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FLAUM, Circuit Judge, with whom BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS, WOOD, Jr., RIPPLE, and KANNE, Circuit Judges, join. Can a “crime of violence” also be a “nonviolent offense”? We heard this case en banc to answer this seemingly straightforward question. The career offender provision of the Sentencing Guidelines defines a “crime of violence” as, inter alia, any offense that “has as an element the use…

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