United States v. Carlos Perez-Perez

Today’s decision is compelled by United States v. Diaz-Ibarra, 522 F.3d 343, 352 (4th Cir.2008), the case in which we described “sexual abuse of a minor” for purposes of identifying “a crime of violence” under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2L1.2(b)(l)(A)(ii) (the reentry Guideline), to mean a “perpetrator’s physical or nonphysical misuse or maltreatment of a minor for a purpose associated with sexual gratification.” (Quotations and citation omitted). I use the term “describe” rather than “define” quite purposefully. This is because in Diaz-Ibarra, rather than undertake to “define” a generic…