United States v. Walker

Docket Number15-4062
Decision Date05 March 2021
While Walker waited in a car, two of his accomplices robbed a house, one holding a 12-year-old boy at gunpoint. All of Walker’s codefendants pleaded guilty. A jury convicted Walker of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951(a), attempted Hobbs Act robbery, and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, 18 U.S.C. 924(c). Walker was sentenced to a combined 72 months’ imprisonment on the conspiracy and attempt counts and a consecutive term of 60...

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64 cases
  • United States v. McCoy
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit
    • April 22, 2021
    ...force, which constitutes "attempted ... use of physical force" within the meaning of § 924(c)(3)(A). Accord United States v. Walker , 990 F.3d 316, 325 (3d Cir. 2021) ; United States v. Dominguez , 954 F.3d 1251, 1262 (9th Cir. 2020), petition for cert. filed , No. 20-1000 (U.S. Jan. 26, 20......
  • United States v. Scott
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Third Circuit
    • September 22, 2021
    ...Thus, Hobbs Act robbery is a categorical match with the elements of § 924(c)(3)(A) as we recently recognized in United States v. Walker , 990 F.3d 316, 324–25 (3d Cir. 2021) ; see also United States v. O'Connor , 874 F.3d 1147, 1158 (10th Cir. 2017) ("There is nothing incongruous about hold......
  • United States v. Cooper
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — District of Columbia
    • June 30, 2022
    ...D.C. Circuit has not ruled on this issue, but a number of other circuit courts have adopted this reasoning. See United States v. Walker , 990 F.3d 316, 327–28 (3d Cir. 2021) (holding that attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence and rejecting argument that it is possible to attemp......
  • United States v. Hunt
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Fourth Circuit
    • April 16, 2024
    ...most circuits held that any attempt to commit a crime of violence is invariably a crime of violence. See, e.g., United States v. Walker, 990 F.3d 316, 328 (3d Cir. 2021); United States v. Smith, 957 F.3d 590, 595 (5th Cir. 2020); United States v. Ingram, 947 F.3d 1021, 1026 (7th Cir. 2020);......
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  • Scientific Principles and Experiments
    • United States
    • The Missouri Bar Practice Books Objections Guidebook Part 1 OBJECTIONS
    • Invalid date
    ...Getting Forensic Analysis Evidence Past the Confrontation Clause, 57 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 27, 27–28 (2020). See also United States v. Walker, 990 F.3d 316 (3rd Cir. 2021) (testimony about a report on phone records and cell site location information was not plain error). The Court of Appeals in......