United States v. Velazquez-Overa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the phrase ‘by its nature’ compels a categorical approach to determining whether an offense is a crime of violence under Section 16(b
• holding that a violation of the Texas statutory rape statute was categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 16(b)
• holding that the statutory rape of a 16 year-old victim is cate- gorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 16(b)
• noting that offense “cannot be a crime of violence ‘by its nature’ in some cases, but not others, depending on the circumstances”
• stating that “physical force is not an element of the crime” of sexual contact with a child
• finding “a significant likelihood that physical force may be used to perpetrate the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).