Leonard v. Brescia Lumber Corp.

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 Florida statute required “proof that the burglary took place in a dwelling occupied by another person at the time the offender entered or remained”
• stating that a “crime involving moral turpitude involves reprehensible conduct committed with some degree of scienter, either specific intent, deliberateness, willfulness, or recklessness”
• stating that a “crime involving moral turpitude involves reprehensible conduct committed with some degree of scienter, either specific intent, deliberateness, willfulness, or recklessness”
• stating that a “crime involving moral turpitude involves reprehensible conduct committed with some degree of scienter, either specific intent, deliberateness, willfulness, or recklessness” (citing Matter of Silva-Trevino, 24 I&N Dec. 687, 706 & n.5 (A.G. 2008))
• “[A] crime involving moral turpitude involves reprehensible conduct committed with some degree of scienter, either specific intent, deliberateness, willfulness, or recklessness.” (citation omitted)
• “We therefore find that our holding in Matter of M- . . . is distinguishable because the offense at issue here . . . involves the burglary of an occupied dwelling.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).