Ninth Circuit· 8/22/2014

Carlos Rendon v. Eric Holder, Jr.

Citations

764 F.3d 1077
2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 16254
2014 WL 4115930

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holding that a statute is divisible “[o]nly when state law requires that in order to convict the defendant the jury must unanimously agree that he committed a particular substantive offense contained within the disjunctively worded statute”
reasoning that when a state criminal law “is written in the disjunctive . . . , that fact alone cannot end the divisibility inquiry”
explaining that the modified categorical approach serves the limited purpose of “helping to implement” the categorical analysis (alterations omitted)
explaining that the modified categorical approach serves the limited purpose of “helping to implement” the categorical analysis (alterations omitted)
providing de novo standard for determining whether a prior conviction is an aggravated felony
describing two decisions that found statutes divisible in part because “it was impossible for the state to allege and the jury to find that the defendant violated the alternative parts of the statute simultaneously”

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Judges: Reinhardt, Fisher, Murguia

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