United States v. Jerry Lee Griffith

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• holding Georgia battery qualified under an ACCA provision regarding a domestic violence predicate that uses “physical force” language similar to that in the elements clause
• asserting that “[a] person cannot make physical contact-partieularly of an insulting or provoking nature — with another without exerting some level of physical force”
• disagreeing with Flores and holding that offense is crime of violence if it has as element any use or threat of physical force—not necessarily “violent”
• application of section 921(a)(33)(A)(ii) “does not turn on the actual conduct underlying the conviction but on the elements of the state crime”
• “we do not feel compelled to reach a result at war with common sense”
• writ- ing that the plain meaning of “physical force,” for purposes of § 921(33)(A)(ii), is “[p]ower, violence, or pressure directed 20064 UNITED STATES v. NOBRIGA against another person’s body

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