Opinion ID: 706688
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Text: 4 A defendant is a career offender if he has at least two prior, unrelated felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense. U.S.S.G. Secs. 4B1.1 & 4B1.2. Prior convictions are related if they result from offenses that were not separated by intervening arrests and that (1) occurred on the same occasion, (2) were part of a single common scheme or plan, or (3) were consolidated for trial or sentencing. U.S.S.G. Sec. 4A1.2(a)(2), comment. (n.3); see also Gallegos-Gonzalez, 3 F.3d at 326-27. 5 Prior to Ranson's 1994 bank robbery which is the basis of the case now under review, Ranson was convicted of numerous counts stemming from two criminal episodes. On May 3, 1980, Ranson broke into a house armed with a knife and fondled and robbed a female resident of the home at knife point. Prior to leaving the house, Ranson warned his victim that he knew where she and her mother worked and that he would return to the house and kill all its residents - the victim, her mother and her daughter - if anyone called the police. 6 On July 7, 1980, Ranson broke into the same house, again armed with a knife, assaulting a different female victim, the first victim's mother who also lived in the house. This time Ranson's victim managed to shoot Ranson leading to his capture. 7 For the May episode, a Nevada jury found Ranson guilty of robbery with use of a deadly weapon, burglary, and gross lewdness. For the July episode, Ranson pled nolo contendre to burglary with intent to commit a felony and attempted sexual assault. The two cases were prosecuted separately, under separate case numbers and Ranson was sentenced on different days by different judges in separate proceedings.