12839725, Hallelujah! Posted by MME, Fri Jun-26-15 09:38 AM
>" Courts must use the “categorical approach” when >deciding whether an offense is a violent felony, looking >“only to the fact that the defendant has been convicted of >crimes falling within certain categories, and not to the facts >underlying the prior convictions.” > >The Fifth Amendment provides that “o person shall >. . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due >process of law.” Our cases establish that the Government >violates this guarantee by taking away someone’s life, >liberty, or property under a criminal law so vague that it >fails to give ordinary people fair notice of the conduct it >punishes, or so standardless that it invites arbitrary en >forcement.
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