Court Opinion

ID: 9497691
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:57:31.741499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:21.290410
License: Public Domain

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge,
with whom MELLOY, Circuit Judge, joins, concurring.
I concur in the judgment of this case, because I believe we are bound by our holdings in United States v. Sun Bear, 307 F.3d 747, 752-53 (8th Cir.2002) and United States v. Sprouse, 394 F.3d 578, 579 (8th Cir.2005). I write separately to voice my agreement with Judge Melloy in his dissent in Sun Bear, as well as Judge Lay’s concurrence in Sprouse.
In light of the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Leocal v. Ashcroft, — U.S. —, 125 S.Ct. 377, 383, 160 L.Ed.2d 271 (2004), which clarified that for a crime to be a “crime of violence” or a “violent felony” the crime must involve active violence, the continued validity of Sun Bear and Sprouse is now questionable. I suggest this case is a candidate for en banc consideration.

APPENDIX

COMPLAINT
I,Melinda S. Whitman, Assistant District Attorney of said County, being duly sworn on oath state to the Court that on or about the 25th day of September, 1994, in the City of Prairie Village, County of Johnson and State of Kansas,
WALTER R. BARBOUR
did then and there unlawfully, felo-niously and willfully obtain or exert unauthorized control over property, to-wit: 1986 Chevrolet Caprice with the intention to permanently deprive the owner, to-wit: Mary Garcia of the possession, use or benefit of said property, of a value of at least $500.00 but less than $25,000, a severity level 9 non-person felony, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3701, K.S.A. 21-4704 and K.S.A. 21^1707.
AFFIDAVIT
Comes now Melinda S. Whitman, an Assistant District Attorney for the Tenth Judicial District of the State of Kansas, of lawful age, being first duly sworn upon her oath, states as follows:
1. On September 25th, 1994 officers responded to 4501 W. 70th Terr, in Prairie Village, Johnson County, Kansas with regard to a stolen car which had just occurred. M G reported that someone had taken her 1986 Chevy Caprice car valued at over $500.00 without her permission or authority. A few seconds later she called dispatch again and said that a car matching the description of her car had just struck the front of her home. G said that she had seen a male in the car wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
2. Several officers checked the area but could not find him. A canine unit was dispatched to the area and assisted in tracking down the suspect who was wearing a red sweatshirt with a gray hooded sweatshirt underneath. When officers found him in the backyard of 4500 W. 71st Street he yelled, “I give up.”
3. The suspect was Mirandized and said that his name was Walter Barbour. He said he had received 6 grams of cocaine from two men named “Sting” and “Bay”. In payment for the cocaine he had to steal the 1986 Chevy, drive it to 59th and Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri and leave it there. The two men had been looking at the car for several days and wanted Barbour to steal it for them. The men dropped Barbour off a few houses from 4410 W. 70th Terr, and he walked to *829the Chevy, breaking into it and driving westbound on 70th Terr. The steering wheel locked causing him to loose control and strike 4501 W. 70th Terr. He then got out of the car and started to run though backyards.
4. The above information was provided from the reports of the Prairie Village Police Department.