United States v. Edward Davis

How courts have described this case

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• Illinois attempted burglary statute requires intent to commit offense and “substantial step” toward knowingly entering building; “substantial step” requires coming within “dangerous proximity to success”
• \under Illinois law there is little difference between the risk of confrontation in an attempted burglary and that in a completed burglary.\
• proximity of thief and victim used as indicator of likely injury from attempted burglary
• “[T]he fact that a defendant does not complete the burglary does not diminish the risk of a violent confrontation between the offender and a potential occupant; in fact, ‘the possibility [of confrontation] may be at its peak while the defendant is still outside trying to break in.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).