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Eleventh Circuit· 9/30/2020

United States v. Michael Anthony Conage

Citations

  • 976 F.3d 1244

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that in determining whether a state conviction qualifies as a predicate offense under the ACCA “we are bound by federal law when we interpret terms in the ACCA and bound by state law when we interpret elements of state-law crimes”
  • seeking clarification on how Florida defined “purchase” in a drug trafficking statute
  • “[T]his Court has found certification to the Florida Supreme Court warranted where an appeal ‘depends on resolution of questions of unsettled Florida law’ that ‘will affect many other cases.’”
  • “As this Court has explained many times, ‘the particular phrasing used in the certified question[s] is not to restrict the Supreme Court’s consideration of the problems involved and the issues as the Supreme Court perceives them to be in its analysis of the record certified in this case.’”
  • following Shular’s construction of “involving”

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