United States v. James E. Simms

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the modified categorical approach to South Carolina’s common law crime of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature
• upholding the district court’s reliance on the factual information in a charge application because it was explicitly incorporated into the statement of charges against the defendant
• “By-contrast, the relevant facts of Shepard’s Massachusetts application, not having been included in Shepard’s charging document, were not a part of the charging document at all.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).