D.C. Circuit· 11/8/2016

United States v. Roger Redrick

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841 F.3d 478
2016 WL 6595973
2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 20106

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holding that the same Maryland conviction qualifies as a “violent felony” under the “elements clause” of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which contains identical language as U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)
noting that the United States has taken divergent positions on the Maryland simple-robbery issue in litigation before the Fourth and D.C. Circuits
noting that the Supreme Court has repeatedly “cautioned against excessive ‘legal imagination’” in applying the categorical approach (citation omitted)
cautioning that the categorical approach requires a focus on “realistic probabilities” not “theoretical possibilities” that the statute “would apply . . . to conduct that falls outside the force clause”
observing that “no one—the government, the judge, or the appellant—could reasonably have anticipated Johnson”
observing that “no one—the government, the judge, or the appellant—could reasonably have anticipated Johnson”

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Judges: Srinivasan, Wilkins, Silberman

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