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061006P.pdf 08/15/2006 United States v. Christopher Morris
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-1006
Western District of Missouri
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Smith and Heaney, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. District court erred in its application
of the armed career criminal guideline because Sec. 4B1.4(b) requires
the district court to choose the greatest offense level among the listed
options, which in this case was 31 and not 33 as determined by the
district court; as a consequence, the district court applied the wrong
guidelines sentencing range and failed to adjust defendant's sentence for
the period of imprisonment already served on his state court conviction;
on remand, the court should grant defendant an adjustment of his
sentence for time served on the state court convictions if the court
determines, pursuant to Sec. 5G1.3(b), that such period of imprisonment
will not be credited to the federal sentence by the Bureau of Prisons.