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: Fifth Circuit BlogAnother Cert Grant on ACCA "Violent Felony" Definition: Does a Nonconsensual Touching Constitute the Use of Physical Force?
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Yesterday the Supreme Court granted cert in Johnson v. United States, No. 08-6925. The two questions presented are:1. Whether, when a state's highest court holds that a given offense of that state does not have as an element the use or threatened use of physical force, that holding is binding on federal courts in determining whether that same offense qualifies as a ''violent felony" under theFull post as published by Fifth Circuit Blog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).
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