United States v. Ellis, Bernard

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• holding that because the element of threatening to “unlawfully injure” a person under Indiana’s intimidation statute was not limited to threats of physical injury, a conviction under that statute did not constitute a “violent felony” under the ACCA
• intentionally directing the actions of a person with physical possession of a known firearm constitutes constructive possession of the firearm
• “a gang leader constructively possesses a gang firearm when he has knowledge of the firearm’s existence and intentionally directs the actions of those who physically possess it”
• \It is unclear how the doctrine of issue preclusion applies in criminal sentencing.\
• “It is unclear how the doctrine of issue preclu- sion applies in criminal sentencing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).