United States v. Dontey Tucker

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that because the defendant “was specifically charged with [possession with intent to distribute cocaine], the trial judge was [required] to find that [he] possessed cocaine in order to convict”
• applying categorical approach of Taylor to determine if prior convictions qualify as serious drug of- fense
• employing the categorical approach to conclude that “neither of [Appellant’s] prior convictions qualif[y] as a ‘serious drug offense’”
• applying categorical approach of Taylor to determine if prior convictions qualify as “serious drug offenses” under ACCA
• applying categorical approach of Taylor to determine if prior convictions qualify as “serious drug offenses” under ACCA
• “In criminal trials the proof offered by the Commonwealth must measure up to the charge made in the indictment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).