Legal Opinion · Dissent

United States v. Eddy Wilmer Vail-Bailon

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided August 25, 2017No. 15-10351Published

1Dissent

ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge,

joined as to Section II by MARTIN, Circuit Judge, and joined as to Sections U.A., II.B.l., and II.B.2.a by JORDAN, Circuit Judge, dissenting:

No question about it: a crime called “felony battery” sure sounds like a violent crime. But sometimes intuition' can be wrong. See Samuel Johnson v. United States, — U.S. —, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 2560, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015) (suggesting that Connecticut’s offense of “rioting at a correctional institution,” a crime that “certainly sounds like a violent felony,” may not, in fact, have qualified as a violent felony under the…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
  2. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  3. Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1998
  4. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  5. Leocal v. AshcroftSupreme Court of the United States · 2004

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