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U.S. v. DeLUCA

No. 93-1773.

17 F.3d 6 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Vito DeLUCA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Wynn, East Boston, MA, for appellant.

Brian T. Kelly, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom A. John Pappalardo, United States Attorney, Boston, MA, was on brief, for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, SELYA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This is another in the long line of sentencing appeals that march beneath the banner of the federal sentencing guidelines.1 The appeal poses only one question: Does a state conviction for extortion, under a statute that defines extortion more broadly than in terms of threats against a person, qualify as a "crime of violence," and, therefore, as a sentence-enhancing factor within...

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