Case Name: UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee v. Donald E. GORDON, Jr. Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-12-27
Citations: 709 F. App'x 395
Docket Number: No. 16-4441
Parties: UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee v. Donald E. GORDON, Jr. Defendant-Appellant
Judges: Before SMITH, Chief Judge, ARNOLD and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 709
Pages: 395–395

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee v. Donald E. GORDON, Jr. Defendant-Appellant
No. 16-4441
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: December 11, 2017
Filed: December 27, 2017
John Nicholas Koester, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri, Cape Girar-deau, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Amanda Lee Altman, Attorney, McMe-namin Law Firm, LLC, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Defendant-Appellant
Donald E. Gordon, Jr., Pro Se
Before SMITH, Chief Judge, ARNOLD and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Donald Gordon, Jr., pleaded guilty to being a felon possessing a firearm and to possessing a stolen firearm. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), (j). Gordon had twice been convicted in Missouri state court of "recklessly caus[ing] serious physical injury to another person." See Mo. Rev. Stat. § 565.060.1(3) (now codified at Mo. Rev. Stat. § 565.052.1(3)). When calculating Gordon's base offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines, the district court determined that Gordon's prior convictions were crimes of violence. See USSG § 2K2.1(a)(2). Gordon appeals, maintaining that his prior convictions were not in fact crimes of violence, and so the district court set his base offense level, and his Guidelines range, too high. While Gordon's appeal was pending, a panel of our court held that convictions under the statute that Gordon violated were not crimes of violence. See United States v. Fields, 863 F.3d 1012, 1015 (8th Cir. 2017). Because we are bound by the prior panel's decision, see United States v. Eason, 829 F.3d 633, 641 (8th Cir. 2016), we vacate Gordon's sentence and remand to the district court for resentencing,