United States v. Linda Wright

Linda Wright appeals her sentence under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 as amended, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3586 . Wright contends that the district court erred in applying criminal history enhancements under sections 4Al.l(d) and (e) of the Sentencing Guidelines promulgated by the United States Sentencing Commission. We affirm.

The facts of this case are not in dispute. On November 3, 1987, appellant Linda Wright escaped from a federally contracted half-way house where she was serving a sentence for armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (d). She was arrested on February 28, 1988. She pled guilty to the charge of escape, 18 U.S.C. § 751 (a), and was sentenced to a term of 33 months to run consecutively to her robbery term.

Wright’s sentence was calculated as follows: The base offense level set by the guidelines for the violation of section 751(a) was 13. Two points were subtracted from this base because her guilty plea constituted an acceptance of responsibility. Pursuant to section 4Al.l(a) of the guidelines, Wright received ten additional Criminal History points based on past incarcerations. Wright objects to three further Criminal History points scored pursuant to sections…