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Supreme Court· 4/18/2007

James v. United States

Citations

  • 550 U.S. 192
  • 127 S. Ct. 1586
  • 167 L. Ed. 2d 532
  • 2007 U.S. LEXIS 4337

How courts have described this case

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

  • 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 a conviction under Florida's attempted burglary statute is a ''violent felony'' under the residual clause of the ACCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Scalia, Alito, Roberts, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer, Scaua, Stevens, Ginsburg, Thomas

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Cites

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