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072679P.pdf 08/11/2008 United States v. Kenneth Williams
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-2679
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Hansen, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. Applying Missouri law, the court
concludes that auto theft by deception, auto theft without consent and
auto tampering are not crimes of violence for purposes of Guidelines Sec.
2K2.1(a)(2); Begay v. United States, 128 S.Ct. 1581 (2008), compels the
court to disregard U.S. v. Sun Bear, 307 F.3d 747 (8th Cir. 2002) and its
progeny to the extent the Supreme Court uses reasoning that conflicts
with the rationale that this court used to determine that auto theft and
auto tampering were crimes of violence; the court cannot determine from
the record which of the three offenses described by R.S. Mo. Sec. 570.030
defendant committed; accordingly, on remand, the district court should
consider permissible materials and determine the particular offense
involved in defendant's auto theft conviction to determine whether the
offense qualifies as a crime of violence.