US v. Ramos — criminal — reversal (for government) — Roth

The Third Circuit today vacated a criminal sentence on the government’s appeal, holding that Pennsylvania’s crime of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon, 18 Pa. CS § 2702(a)(4), is categorically a crime of violence and that the defendant therefore qualified as a career offender under the advisory Sentencing Guidelines (even though he did not under the ACCA).

Joining Roth were Smith and Hardiman. Arguing counsel were Robert Zauzmer for the government and Arianna Freeman for the defendant.