Legal Opinion
United States v. Terrance Tyrone Davis
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 7, 2017No. 16-10789PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
This is an.ACCA “violent felony” issue case. So here we go down the rabbit hole again to a realm where we must close our eyes as judges - to what we know as men and women. It is a pretend place in which a crime that the defendant committed violently is transformed into a non-violent one because other defendants at other times may have been convicted, or future defendants- Could be convicted, of violating the same statute without violence. Curiouser and curiouser it has all become, as the holding we must enter in this case shows. Still we are required to follow the…
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