United States v. Pedro Santiesteban-Hernandez

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Texas robbery qualifies as generic robbery and is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2
• remarking that the majority and minority definitions are substantively similar, but applying the majority definition
• holding that a conviction under a Texas robbery statute qualifies as generic robbery be cause its elements “substantially correspond to the basic elements of the generic offense, in that they both involve theft and immediate danger to a person”
• remarking that the majority and minority definitions are substantively similar, but applying the majority definition
• noting that “the bodily injury approach focuses on the realization of the immediate danger rather than the means by which the immediate danger is created, but they are two sides of the same coin”
• “[T]he elements of the Texas [robbery] statute substantially correspond to the basic elements of the generic offense, in that they both involve theft and immediate danger to a person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).