Sperling v. 145 East 15th Street Tenants' Corp.

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• finding that voluntary intoxication does not negate the mens rea required to establish the aggravated felony of “murder”
• noting that the Federal statute defining murder was not dispositive in defining the aggravated felony crime of murder
• looking to common law to discern the generic definition of the crime of “murder,” which we found had “not diverged significantly from its common-law roots”
• finding the Federal murder statute to be “a significant point of reference” in defining the meaning of aggravated felony murder in section 101(a)(43)(A) of the Act
• “‘[D]epraved mind murder,’ which has been described as ‘outrageously reckless conduct’ committed with ‘wantonness or total indifference for the value of human life’ is substantially similar to murders marked by ‘extreme indifference to the value of human life.’”

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