· 1/10/2006
MacKie v. State, 05-5144 (r.I.super. 2006)
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- holding that “it is impossible to cause bodily injury without using force ‘capable of’ producing that result”
- holding that second-degree battery conviction in violation of Ark. Code Ann. § 5-13-202 (a)(2) for purposely causing physical injury to a person by means of a deadly weapon other than a firearm was a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's force clause
- rejecting a defendant’s “effort to show daylight between physical injury and physical force”
- “[After Castleman,] [h]ypothetical scenarios involving no physical contact by the perpetrator (luring a victim to drink poison or infecting a victim with a disease
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Judges: FORTUNATO, J.
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