United States v. Eddie J. Mathis

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• noting § 924(c) force clause offenses are those that have as “an element the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against a person. This ... would include such felonies involving physical force against a person such as murder, rape, assault, robbery, etc.”
• 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) does not include “felonies in which the use of force was de minimis”
• “under D.C. law, a defendant may be convicted of a crime requiring proof of ‘force or violence’ when the only force used is that necessary to lift a wallet from a pocket”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).