United States v. Rysheen Bowers

How courts have described this case

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• noting weight of authority endorses use of categorical approach in determining whether an offense is a “crime of violence” within meaning of Bail Reform Act
• “[A] felon in possession has committed a crime of violence only if the nature of that offense is such that there is a ‘substantial risk’ that he will use ‘physical force’ against another ‘in the course of’ his possession of the weapon.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).