Document ID: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-ca8-10-01229/USCOURTS-ca8-10-01229-0/pdf.json

Parties Involved:
Willie Jackson
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

___________

No. 10-1229

___________

United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* Eastern District of Missouri.

Willie Jackson, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

___________

Submitted: August 5, 2010

Filed: August 11, 2010

___________

Before BYE, BOWMAN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

___________

PER CURIAM.

Willie Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent

to distribute in excess of 100 grams of heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1)

and 846. The district court1

 determined that Jackson was a career offender under

U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, based on a 1989 felony drug conviction and a 1995 felony

conviction for “violence/injury to persons” under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 217.385 (1989);

the court sentenced Jackson to 108 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release. 

1

The Honorable Rodney W. Sippel, United States District Judge for the Eastern

District of Missouri.

Appellate Case: 10-1229 Page: 1 Date Filed: 08/11/2010 Entry ID: 3692451
On appeal, Jackson’s counsel has filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S.

738 (1967), objecting to career-offender status. 

We conclude that Jackson qualified as a career offender. See U.S.S.G.

§ 4B1.1(a) (defendant is career offender if, inter alia, he has at least two prior felony

convictions for crime of violence or controlled-substance offense); United States v.

Wilson, 562 F.3d 965, 967 (8th Cir. 2009) (de novo review). First, although counsel

questions whether the 1995 conviction under section 217.385 was a “crime of

violence,” the presentence report indicates that the indictment for the predicate offense

stated Jackson struck another inmate in the head and face with his fists. See Mo. Rev.

Stat. § 217.385 (1989) (“No offender shall commit or offer to commit violence to an

employee of the department or to another offender housed in a department

correctional facility, or attempt to do injury to any building or other property.”

(emphasis added)); U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1) (offense is crime of violence if it “has as

an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the

person of another”); United States v. Ross, 2010 WL 2869560, at * 1 (8th Cir. July

23, 2010) (when a statute of conviction encompasses multiple generic crimes, and

when some qualify as crimes of violence and others do not, the court may apply a

“modified categorical approach” that permits review of certain judicial records to

determine whether the defendant was convicted of a crime of violence). Second,

contrary to counsel’s argument, the 1989 and 1995 convictions were “separate” under

the Guidelines. See U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, comment. (n.3) (provisions of U.S.S.G. §

4A1.2 are applicable to counting of convictions under § 4B1.1); see also U.S.S.G. §

4A1.2(a)(2) (prior sentences are always counted separately if sentences were imposed

for offenses that were separated by intervening arrest; if there was no intervening

arrest, prior sentences are counted separately unless (A) sentences resulted from

offenses contained in same charging instrument, or (B) sentences were imposed on

same day). 

-2-

Appellate Case: 10-1229 Page: 2 Date Filed: 08/11/2010 Entry ID: 3692451
Finding no nonfrivolous issue for appeal, see Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80

(1988), we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw and we affirm the judgment. 

______________________________

-3-

Appellate Case: 10-1229 Page: 3 Date Filed: 08/11/2010 Entry ID: 3692451