United States v. Darnell Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Tennessee robbery, under pre-1989 and post-1989 version of the statute, qualifies as an ACCA violent felony
• holding that Tennessee robbery is a violent felony for purposes of the ACCA
• holding that “the commission of a robbery through fear, which in Tennessee reduces to the fear of bodily injury from physical force offered or impending, directly corresponds to § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)’s ‘use . . . or threatened use of physical force’”
• explaining that this court is “bound by” a state supreme court’s interpretation of an offense
• explaining that Tennessee robbery, as defined in 1976, was “a crime of intent” and reading “fear” to categorically match the federal term “violent felony”
• explaining that because the robbery crime at issue “require[d] violence actually [be] dispensed, or put[ ] the victim in fear from violence offered or impending,” such crime clearly presented the requisite level of risk under the ACCA

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