United States v. Diaz-Ibarra

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• concluding that categorical approach requires consideration of “full range of conduct covered by statutory language, including the most innocent conduct proscribed by the statute”
• holding that the modified categorical approach may be used whenever the state statute is \categorically overbroad\
• concluding that ‘“sexual abuse of a minor’ means the ‘perpetrator’s physical or nonphysical misuse or maltreatment of a minor for a purpose associated with sexual gratification’ ” (emphasis added)
• recognizing the modified categorical approach applies when a state statute is categorically overbroad
• relying on the “common meaning” of the words “sexual” and “minor” as stated in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary to define the meaning of “sexual abuse of a minor” in the § 2L1.2 crime-of-violence enhancement
• defining the term sexual as used in the phrase sexual abuse of a minor

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