United States v. Sylvestre Acosta, Also Known as Sly Acosta, and Paul Skinner, Gerald T. Skinner

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• reaching conclusion with respect to conspiracy to injure, threaten, or intimidate person in exercise of civil rights
• applying categorical approach to determine whether appealed § 924(c) conviction was “crime of violence”
• applying interpretation of Section 16 to the “virtually identical” Section 924(c)(3)
• \[W]e focus on the intrinsic nature of the offense rather than on the circumstances of the particular crime.\
• “[W]e focus on the intrinsic nature of the offense rather than on the circumstances of the particular crime.”
• “Under this categorical approach, we focus on the intrinsic nature of the offense rather than on the circumstances of the particular crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).