Legal Opinion
United States v. Alton Young
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 6, 2017No. 16-60790PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:
Alton Young appeals the district court’s classification of Young as a Tier III sex offender based on his prior conviction for touching a child for lustful purposes in violation of Mississippi Code section 97-5-23. On appeal, Young argues that the district court should have applied the categorical approach in making its tier deter-hiination and, in doing so, found that the Mississippi statute criminalizes a broader range of conduct than the generic federal offenses that result in Tier III classification. Applying the categorical approach and concluding that…
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