United States v. Jerome L. Wood

How courts have described this case

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

• Alabama robbery was a crime of violence both because the statute required physical force and because robbery was one of the enumerated offenses in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Note 1
• “The [career-offender guideline] do[es] not distinguish between first, second, or third degrees of offenses.”
• “There is simply no ambiguity in the language of the Alabama statute: to be guilty of robbery in the third degree a defendant must either use force or threaten the imminent use of force against a person sometime during the commission of a theft.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).