United States v. Mills, No. 16-4777 (4th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseThe Fourth Circuit affirmed defendant's 70-month sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. Defendant argued that his prior North Carolina conviction did not qualify as a conviction for a crime of violence and that the district court erred in so concluding. The court held that any error that the district court might have committed in treating defendant's North Carolina conviction as a crime-of-violence predicate was harmless because the district court would have imposed the same 70-month sentence regardless of how it resolved the disputed Guidelines issue and the 70-month sentence would, in the circumstances, have been reasonable.
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