U.S. v. Wilbourn

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 135-month term of incarceration on charge of bank robbery and brandishing of firearm, where said sentence was based in part on 2-level obstruction of justice enhancement. While defendant behaved prior to trial as if he were in catatonic state and told others that he could not read or recognize things such as banks, birthdays, names or years, wife of defendant testified at competency hearing that defendant could recognize such concepts, and prison staff observed defendant reading and following instructions. As such, Dist. Ct. could properly find that defendant’s exaggeration of his mental deficits delayed instant criminal process, and that such conduct qualified as obstruction of justice for enhancement purposes.