Steiner v. State of New York

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• recognizing that Guidelines error is harmless if (1) district court would have reached same result either way and (2) sentence would be reasonable even if Guidelines issue was decided in defendant’s favor
• expressing doubt regarding the trial court’s conclusion that § 14-32(b) is a crime of violence under the sentencing guidelines after finding that subsection (b) is not itself divisible by mens rea, but declining to resolve the issue because any error was harmless
• arguable error was harmless where district court said it would impose same sentence regardless and sentence would be reasonable under either guideline calculation
• cleaned 3 USCA4 Appeal: 21-4138 Doc: 24 Filed: 09/14/2022 Pg: 4 of 6 up

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