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· 6/28/2012

United States v. Laquann Dawn

Citations

  • 685 F.3d 790
  • 2012 WL 2428414
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 13218

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that it “is necessarily a crime of violence,” which overlaps with the “violent felony” definition (citation omitted)
  • allowing a review of limited materials only for the purpose of determining which divisible subpart of a statute the defendant violated
  • describing the modified categorical approach and explaining it applies to the Arkansas statute at issue here
  • applying Ossana and holding that a conviction under Arkansas’s second-degree battery statute did not categorically qualify as a crime of violence because the statute also encompassed reckless driving
  • applying Ossana and holding that a conviction under Arkansas’s second-degree battery statute did not categorically qualify as a crime of violence because the statute also encompassed reckless driving

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Judges: Colloton, Gruender, Smith

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