Hammond v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “the logic of Castleman extends to our review of ACCA’s force clause”
• noting that those cases “appl[y] only where a crime does not have as an element the intentional causation of death or injury.”
• “Following Castleman, it is impossible to intend to cause injury or death without physical force as contemplated under the ACCA”
• holding Maryland’s equivalent crime of assault with intent to murder “is a specific intent crime and the only mens rea that would support the conviction is the specific intent to bring about the death of the assault victim”
• “[A] crime requiring the ‘intentional causation’ of injury requires the use of physical force” within the meaning of the ACCA. (citation omitted)
• “[A] crime requiring the ‘intentional causation’ of injury requires the use of physical force” within the meaning of ACCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).