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U.S. v. DICKENS

No. 88-2263.

879 F.2d 410 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Larry DICKENS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1989

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Thomas Day, Asst. Federal Public Defender, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Patricia McGarry, Asst. U.S. Atty., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD, JOHN R. GIBSON and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Larry Dickens pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and was sentenced to thirty months in prison. The sole issue on appeal is whether the District Court1 erred in considering a 1982 misdemeanor conviction for passing bad checks in determining Dickens's criminal history score under the Sentencing Guidelines. We affirm.

The Sentencing Guidelines provide...

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