United States v. James Vernell Moore

How courts have described this case

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• relying on a doctor’s testimony that a human bite, which can be more dangerous than a dog bite, is capable of causing serious infection and “can be a very dangerous form of aggression” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• defendant’s mouth and teeth were a dangerous weapon when the defendant had HIV and bit correctional officers
• “[I]t is the capacity for harm in the weapon and its use that is significant, not the actual harm inflicted.... [The defendant] used his mouth and teeth in a way that could have transmitted disease.” (citations omitted)
• mop handle, not a dangerous weapon under the circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).