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Parties Involved:
Juan V. Angiano
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

In the

United States Court of Appeals

For the Seventh Circuit

No. 09-3592

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

JUAN V. ANGIANO,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

No. 09 CR 63—Charles N. Clevert, Jr., Chief Judge.

ARGUED APRIL 1, 2010—DECIDED APRIL 19, 2010

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and

HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

BAUER, Circuit Judge. At issue in this appeal is whether

the district court correctly concluded that burglary of a

dwelling is a crime of violence, warranting a sentencing

enhancement. Reviewing this question of law de novo,

we affirm.

DISCUSSION

Juan Angiano pleaded guilty to one count of illegal reentry after being convicted of an aggravated felony,

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in violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1326(a) and 1326(b)(2). Angiano

admitted that he was previously convicted of burglary

of a dwelling, in violation of Wis. Stat. § 943.10(1m)(a).

The statute under which Angiano was sentenced states:

“If the defendant previously was deported, or unlawfully remained in the United States, after . . . a conviction for a felony that is . . . a crime of violence . . . increase by 16 levels.” U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual

§ 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) (2009). A “crime of violence” includes

any of the following offenses under federal, state, or

local law:

[M]urder, manslaughter, kidnapping, aggravated

assault, forcible sex offenses . . . statutory rape, sexual

abuse of a minor, robbery, arson, extortion, extortionate extension of credit, burglary of a dwelling, or any

other offense under federal, state, or local law that

has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened

use of physical force against the person of another.

U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2L1.2 n.1(B)(iii)

(2009) (emphasis added).

The Guidelines Manual makes clear that enumerated

offenses, such as burglary of a dwelling “are always

classified as ‘crimes of violence,’ regardless of whether

the prior offense expressly has as an element the use,

attempted use, or threatened use of physical force

against the person of another.” U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual, Supplement to Appendix C, Amendment

722 (effective date Nov. 1, 2008). The district judge

applied the sixteen-level enhancement and sentenced

Angiano to imprisonment for seventy-seven months.

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On appeal, Angiano would like us to skip over the

enumerated offenses in the definition above and analyze the particulars of his offense to see if it “has as an

element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of

physical force against the person of another.” Angiano

cites Begay v. United States, 553 U.S. 137 (2008), and Chambers v. United States, 129 S. Ct. 687 (2009), arguing that

these Supreme Court cases looked at the residual clause

of the Armed Career Criminal Act’s (“ACCA”) definition

of “violent felony” to determine whether an enhancement was warranted. However, these cases are inapposite; both Begay and Chambers only classified the prior

convictions under the residual clause of 18 U.S.C.

§ 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) (2006) because the prior offenses were

not specifically enumerated as “violent felon[ies]”

under that clause. Here, Angiano’s prior offense is specifically enumerated as a crime of violence under

§ 2L1.2 n.1(B)(iii); there is no need to look at the

residual clause.

CONCLUSION

Because burglary of a dwelling is specifically enumerated as a crime of violence under § 2L1.2 n.1(B)(iii),

the sixteen-level enhancement was warranted.

AFFIRMED.

4-19-10

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