United States v. Hernandez-Galvan

How courts have described this case

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• \[T]his court considers de novo whether a defendant's prior conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' within the meaning of the Guidelines.\
• “[T]his court considers de novo whether a defendant’s prior conviction qualifies as a ‘crime of violence’ within the meaning of the Guidelines.”
• “[T]he ‘substantial step’ test from the Model Penal Code . . . is now the majority view among the states and federal courts, including the Fifth Circuit.”
• “[T]o the extent the ‘substantial step’ test requires an act that provides strong evidence of the actor’s mental state, it might not criminalize some slight acts that go beyond mere preparation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).