Esperanza Contreras v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attempted-battery assault is not a “crime of violence” under federal law because it “can rest on the use or attempted use of force that does not rise to the level of violent force as required under federal law”
• observing that “[b]ecause the statute does not specify the elements of assault, the common law definition of the offense controls” (quotation marks omitted)
• slap in the face, a completed battery, was prosecuted as an assault
• slap in the face, a completed battery, was prosecuted as an assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).