Eleventh Circuit· 10/9/2019

Dimitrios I. Bourtzakis v. U.S. Attorney General

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940 F.3d 616

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allowing the appellant to raise a new legal argument about the scope of a Washington statute because it fit within the preserved question of “whether [his] Washington drug conviction qualifie[d] as an aggravated felony”
“Because the conduct a state statute proscribes ‘is a question of [state] law,’ we ‘look to the state’s courts to answer this question.’”
“[D]espite this difference in language [between knowledge and intent] No. 22-2278 9 the mens-rea requirements for accomplice liability under the [state] statute and the federal Act do not diverge.”
arriving at the same conclusion

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