COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, etc. v. JANETTH VARGAS

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attempt to commit a burglary, as defined by Florida law, is a “violent felony” pursuant to the residual clause of the ACCA
• holding that the proper inquiry for the categorical approach is whether the conduct covered by the crime presents the requisite risk of injury “in the ordinary case”
• holding that application of the Taylor categorical approach to determine whether an offense presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to others “raises no Sixth Amendment issue”
• holding that application of the Taylor categorical approach to determine whether an offense presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to others \raises no Sixth Amendment issue\
• holding that courts should examine the ordinary case, rather than theoretical possibilities, when evaluating whether a crime presented a serious potential risk of injury under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)
• holding that attempted burglary, as defined by Florida law, is a “violent felony” under ACCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).