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Crime of Violence Requires Violence

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

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Sorry for the lag time. This is just a quick post to notify you of a great defense win at SCOTUS. The case is Johnson v. US. Scalia writes that a prior conviction for battery by offensive touching is NOT a crime of violence because it does not require the use of violent force. What a concept: a crime of violence requires violence. A synopsis from Sara Silva, Sentencing Resource Counsel: [T]

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on March 02, 2010 (boomark / email).

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