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· 1/15/2015

United States v. Charles Gatson

Citations

  • 776 F.3d 405
  • 2015 FED App. 0007P
  • 2015 WL 177120
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 653

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an Ohio statute criminalizing “knowingly caus[ing] or creat[ing] a substantial risk of physical harm to property without the victim’s consent” by “means of fire or explosion” matched generic arson
  • limiting the holding of Castleman to the context of “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence”
  • limiting the holding of Castleman to the context Pf “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence”
  • “[A] tip from an identifiable informant who gives reasonably detailed information can provide reasonable suspicion . . . .”
  • “. . . like every other court to consider the question, we conclude that generic arson embraces the intentional or malicious burning of any property.”
  • Force that causes injury, illness, or other physiological impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration “is (to some extent, by definition) force ‘capable of causing physical injury or pain to another person.’” (quoting Johnson, 559 U.S. at 140)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Batchelder, Kethledge, Collier

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