In re Adoption of K.W.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that § 30.02(a)(3)’s element of an attempted or completed crime inherently requires an intent to commit that crime
• concluding that a person has committed generic burglary when he or she “enters a building or habitation and commits or attempts to commit a felony, theft, or an assault . . . without the effective consent of the owner” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding that Taylor does not require that intent exist at entry
• equating an entry “without effective consent of the owner” to an “unlawful or unprivileged en‐ try”
• conviction under Texas law for burglary of a habitation a crime 22 of violence
• “the [Supreme] Court declined to limit the term ‘burglary’ to a special subclass of burglaries, either those that would have been burglaries at common law, or those that involve especially dangerous conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).