Chisholm v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

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• noting some of the challenges in applying the various, and sometimes inconsistent, formulations of assault articulated by North Carolina courts
• noting some of the challenges in applying the various, and 31 sometimes inconsistent, formulations of assault articulated by North Carolina courts
• conducting a detailed review of North Carolina common law and describing it as a “quagmire of alternative definitions for assault on a female”
• invoking the rule of lenity in deciding whether the crime of assault in North Carolina is categorically a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence under federal law
• invoking the rule of lenity in deciding whether the crime of assault in North Carolina is categorically a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence under federal law

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