United States v. Jerome Kindle

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant’s burglary conviction was a crime of violence based in part on defendant’s admissions through counsel
• “[The defendant’s] argument that an admission in court papers or in plea agreements should be ignored is, as we said at oral argument, striking.”
• a defendant who makes a strategic choice to adopt one sentencing argument over others waives the arguments he chose not to pursue
• “[The defendant’s] argument that an admission in court papers or in plea agreements should 18 No. 07-2037 be ignored is, as we said at oral argument, striking.”
• “There may be sound strategic reasons why a criminal defendant will elect to pursue one sentencing argument while also choosing to forego another, and when the defendant selects as a matter of strategy, he also waives those arguments he decided not to present.”

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