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Robinson v. United States

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
Sep 29, 2011
No. 10-12289 (11th Cir. Sep. 29, 2011)

Opinion

No. 10-12289 D. C. Docket No. 8:10-cv-00916-RAL-MAP D. C. Docket No. 8:04-cr-00067-RAL-MAP-2

09-29-2011

LEE CURTIS ROBINSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent-Appellee.


[DO NOT PUBLISH]


Non-Argument Calendar


Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Middle District of Florida

Before CARNES, WILSON and BLACK, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:

Lee Curtis Robinson, a federal prisoner, appeals pro se the dismissal of his pro se 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate his sentence.

In his § 2255 motion, Robinson contended that it was error for the district court to have considered him a career offender for sentencing purposes. To be considered a career offender, a defendant must have had "at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense." U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a). Robinson conceded that one of his prior convictions on which the district court had previously relied qualified as a predicate felony offense under § 4B1.1(a), but argued that his other four prior convictions no longer qualified as "crime[s] of violence." See U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a). One of the convictions that Robinson challenged was a conviction for resisting arrest with violence under Florida Statute 843.01.

We have recently held, however, that a prior conviction for resisting arrest with violence under Florida Statute 843.01 is categorically a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act. United States v. Nix, 628 F.3d 1341, 1342 (11th Cir. 2010). We have also held that because the definitions of "violent felony" under ACCA and "crime of violence" under § 4B1.2(a) are virtually identical, we consider cases interpreting one as authority in cases interpreting the other. United States v. Alexander, 609 F.3d 1250, 1253 (11th Cir.2010). Robinson's prior conviction under Florida law for resisting arrest with violence is thus a "crime of violence" under § 4B1.2(a)(2). Because Robinson still has at least two qualifying prior convictions under § 4B1.1(a), the district court did not err in denying his § 2255 motion.

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Robinson v. United States

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
Sep 29, 2011
No. 10-12289 (11th Cir. Sep. 29, 2011)
Case details for

Robinson v. United States

Case Details

Full title:LEE CURTIS ROBINSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Sep 29, 2011

Citations

No. 10-12289 (11th Cir. Sep. 29, 2011)

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