United States v. Carson Beasley

How courts have described this case

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• determining that “CA:M2” notation on state judgment of conviction meant “criminal attempt, second degree murder” based on “basic common sense” and as corroborated through non-Shepard evidence
• reviewing a district court’s reasonable interpretation of “CA:M2” as criminal attempt, second degree murder
• “[W]e have held that a district court does not violate the Sixth Amendment by determining the fact and nature of a defendant’s prior convictions and using these findings to impose an increased sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act.”
• “Rather, in making its determination, the district court expressly stated that it relied only on the state court judgment and underlying indictment, materials that are explicitly within the scope of the ‘categorical approach’ approved by the Supreme Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).