Leon Robinson v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• observing that we use the categorical approach outlined in Taylor to assess a predicate offense
• holding that the offense of taking indecent liberties with a child, in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14- 202.1, was a \crime of violence\ for purposes of the career- offender enhancement under U.S.S.G. §§ 4B1.1, 4B1.2(a)
• explaining that sexual touching \may not cause injury\ and thus the \violence ... was not necessarily the touching\
• noting that the North Carolina courts have consistently held that constructive force may be inferred in sexual abuse cases involving children
• explaining that sexual touching \may not cause injury\ and thus the \violence . . . was not necessarily the touching\
• noting that “the statute is written in broad terms as part of its specific design to protect against the heightened risk of injury that comes when impressionable children are the victims”

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