Keeton v. Tesla

How courts have described this case

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• including defendant's earlier District of Columbia Code violation for attempted assault with a deadly weapon as a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1
• applying Curtis Johnson’s definition of “force” to the Guidelines’ elements clause
• “Thrice before, this court has held that an inadequately explained and insufficiently particularized upward variance constitutes plain error.”
• D.C. assault with a dangerous weapon is crime of violence under Sentencing Guidelines
• Plea colloquies “aim to dispel any misconceptions that the defendant may have about his likely sentence and to correct or clarify any erroneous information given by the defendant’s attorney.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Because there is no precedent of the Supreme Court or this court requiring a district court to give a special unanimity instruction sua sponte in circumstances like those in this case, the district court’s failure to do so cannot constitute plain error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).