United States v. Rodney T. Howze

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the risk of injury posed by theft from a person was “at least as likely (in the aggregate) as injury from burglary”
• determining that the offense of fleeing from an officer under Wisconsin law presents a “serious potential risk of physical injury to another,” relying in large part on the offense’s similarity to, and even greater potential for danger than, an escape
• finding that street thefts are crimes of violence under the residual clause
• finding that street thefts are crimes of violence under the residual clause
• finding, prior to Woods, that WIS. STAT. § 346.04(3) described a “crime of violence”
• looking to charging papers under parallel provision to § 16(b) to determine if defendant had been convicted of theft under branch of statute prohibiting stealing from live person (a crime of violence) or from a grave or coffin (which is not)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).