Johnson v. United States

I join the per curiam opinion except for Part VI.

In finding the evidence sufficient to convict appellant of burglary, the majority ignores the government's failure to establish a crucial element of the crime: that appellant had the specific intent, at the moment he entered Townes’ home, to physically assault her. The majority fails to show how the government’s evidence is sufficiently probative of that intent. Instead, the majority merely cites selective segments of testimony by Townes and her mother and says, summarily, that this testimony shows “other circumstances” sufficient to allow the…