Legal Opinion
Roberto Lopez Valencia v. Loretta E. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 17, 2015No. 12-73210PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
On its face, the task of figuring out whether a prior offense qualifies as a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act. or an “aggravated felony” under immigration law would seem to be a straightforward undertaking. After all, these categories conjure up the notion of certain kinds of crimes. In practice, however, the classification has been much more nuanced, and courts have spent inordinate amounts of time parsing whether a crime falls into one of these categories. The consequences are significant as the answer may lead either to an enhanced sentence…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by62 opinions
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