First Circuit· 1/30/2017

Swaby v. Yates

Citations

847 F.3d 62
2017 WL 395097

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

warning that a state criminal statute should not \be treated as if it is narrower than it plainly is\
finding that indictment’s description of crime as possession of “a controlled substance, to wit, [m]arijuana” supported the court’s finding that the statute was divisible
rejecting the Government’s “surprising view that, in applying the categorical approach, state law crimes should not be given their plain meaning
describing the realistic probability inquiry as a “sensible caution against crediting speculative assertions regarding the potentially sweeping scope of ambiguous state law crimes”
rejecting the realistic probability test for a controlled substance violation in the immigration context
rejecting the realistic probability test for a controlled substance violation in the immigration context

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Judges: Barron, Stahl, Lipez

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