Mathis v. United States

Holding that a court employing the categorical approach "looks to a limited class of documents"

Taylor v. United States

Holding that the term "burglary" as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act was to be given its "generic, contemporary meaning" to avoid a scenario in which "a person ... would, or would not, receive a sentence enhancement based on exactly the same conduct, depending on whether the State of his prior conviction happened to call that conduct ‘burglary’ "

Leocal v. Ashcroft

Holding that a "DUI causing serious bodily injury" is not a "crime of violence"

Perrin v. United States

Holding that commercial bribery falls under the definition of bribery under the Travel Act, which was passed nine years before RICO was enacted

Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions

Holding that courts may "look to state criminal codes for additional evidence about the generic meaning of sexual abuse of a minor"

U.S. v. Heredia

Holding that whether to give a deliberate ignorance instruction is reviewed for abuse of discretion, and the sufficiency of the supporting evidence is considered in the light most favorable to the requesting party

United States v. Jewell

In Jewell there was no evidence that the defendant associated the presence of the secret compartment with the concealment of drugs; the Jewell court was satisfied that a jury could infer such a connection as a matter of common sense.

United States v. Sanchez-Rodriguez

People v. Whitfield

Declining to adopt the Allen rule

United States v. Fields

Reversing conviction where charge failed adequately to explain requisite degree of knowledge

Section 841 - Prohibited acts A

In § 841 prosecutions, then, it is the fact that the doctor issued an unauthorized prescription that renders his or her conduct wrongful, not the fact of the dispensation itself.

Section 924 - Penalties

Holding that conviction for eluding police, under Maine statute which provides that "[w]hoever, after being requested or signaled to stop, attempts to elude a law enforcement officer by driving a vehicle at a reckless rate of speed which results in a high-speed chase between the operator's vehicle and any law enforcement vehicle using a blue light and siren is guilty" of a felony-level crime, involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)

Section 922 - Unlawful acts

Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"

Section 1101 - Definitions

Finding notice and comment rulemaking is required for the agency's interim rule recognizing fear of coercive family practices as basis for refugee status

Section 2113 - Bank robbery and incidental crimes

Providing separate and greater punishment for bank robberies accomplished through 'use of a dangerous weapon or device'

Section 1227 - Deportable aliens

Granting this discretion to the Attorney General

Section 496 - Buying or receipt of stolen property

Relating to receipt of stolen property

Section 641 - Public money, property or records

Requiring knowledge

Section 31.03 - Theft

Defining theft to include the knowing appropriation of property that is stolen

Section 2913.51 - Receiving stolen property

Receiving stolen property

Section 1003.30 - Additional charges in deportation or removal hearings

Providing that DHS may file additional or substitute charges of removability "[a]t any time during deportation or removal proceedings" and that an "alien may be given a reasonable continuance to respond to the additional factual allegations and charges"