reckless-causation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-6773 Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio…
20-6407 Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct I. Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use o…
20-6225 Michael David Lister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act…
20-5643 Louis Gene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault burglary civil-rights due-process leocal physical-force predicate-conviction reckless-causation texas-assault-crimes texas-criminal-law 1. A state crime is a "violent felony" (and therefore a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act) if it "has as an element the u…