United States v. Kieffer, No. 14-2653 (7th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseKieffer robbed the Bank of O’Fallon and led police officers on a high-speed chase. Kieffer confessed; police retrieved the $3,330 he had stolen. Kieffer confessed that he had robbed six other banks (five outside Illinois) during the previous two months. At the time of his arrest, he faced charges for robberies in Wyoming and Michigan. The cases were transferred to the Southern District of Illinois and consolidated. Kieffer pleaded guilty to all three robberies, 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), and stipulated to the four uncharged robberies. The court calculated a total offense level of 28, by separately calculating the offense levels for all seven robberies, U.S.S.G. 1B1.2(c), and then applying a multiple-count adjustment, and criminal history category of V, yielding a guidelines imprisonment range of 130 to 162 months. Kieffer received concurrent 20-year sentences, the statutory maximum on each count, and was ordered to pay $10,615 in restitution to the Wyoming and Michigan banks, plus $21,230 to the banks in the four uncharged robberies. Kieffer relinquished appeal rights except regarding “the reasonableness of the sentence” if “the sentence imposed is in excess of the Sentencing Guidelines as determined by the Court.” The Seventh Circuit affirmed the sentences, except the restitution award to the banks in the uncharged robberies, which it vacated.
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