United States v. Aemonn Alexander

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• holding Missouri second-degree assault statute that criminalizes attempting to cause or knowingly causing physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act
• rejecting categorical challenge to state attempt statute based on a lack of case law construing attempt overinclusively
• rejecting categorical challenge to Missouri's attempt statute based on lack of case law construing attempt overinclusively
• reviewing de novo the district court’s determination that prior convictions were predicate offenses under the ACCA; concluding that, where the language of the charging instrument tracked the language of § 565.060(2
• “[A]n attempted second-degree assault under Mo. Rev. Stat. § -2- 565.060(1)(2) constitutes an attempted use . . . of physical force under § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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