United States v. Jesus Torres-Miguel

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• concluding that for a state offense to constitute a crime of violence, the offense must require the “use or threatened use of violent force” rather than “simply result in physical injury or death”
• considering whether a California threat conviction constituted a crime of violence under the United States Sentencing Guidelines
• finding no categorical match between defendant’s California felony threat conviction and a “crime of violence” under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines because threatening to commit a crime against another that will result in death or serious injury (crime of conviction
• California conviction for threatening to commit a crime “which will result in death or great bodily injury to another” was not a crime of violence
• California conviction for threatening to commit a crime “which will result in death or great bodily injury to another” was not a crime of violence
• \[A] crime may result in death or serious injury without involving use of physical force.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).