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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.