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• W853983432 abstract "When courts analyze whether a defendant's prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under Armed Career Criminal Act's clause, they use a looking only to statutory language of prior offense, rather than facts disclosed by record of conviction. But when a defendant is convicted under a statute, which encompasses a broader range of conduct, only some of which would qualify as a predicate offense, courts may employ modified categorical approach. This allows courts to view additional documents to determine whether jury convicted defendant of Armed Career Criminal Act-qualifying part of statute. This Note identifies a split among circuit courts regarding when a statute is divisible. Under formal method, a statute is divisible only when its text specifies qualifying and nonqualifying categories of conduct. By contrast, courts that employ functional method divide a statute if, regardless of statute's text, it is possible to violate statute in a way that amounts to a violent felony and in a way that does not amount to a violent This Note contends that text-based formal method is more consistent with Supreme Court's Armed Career Criminal Act jurisprudence, Sixth Amendment, and rule of lenity. Finally, it argues that formal method gives Congress strongest incentive to revise vague and confusing Armed Career Criminal Act.IntroductionMore than two decades after its passage, Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) remains a nagging source of confusion and frustration. The statute mandates a fifteen-year minimum sentence for a felon who is convicted of possessing a firearm and who has three or more previous convictions for a violent felony1 or of violence.2 It is used to increase sentences of hundreds of criminal defendants per year.3 In addition to four specifically enumerated crimes-burglary, arson, extortion, and use of explosives-the ACCA includes as a violent felony any crime that otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.4 This provision is known as clause.This broadly worded has attracted substantial attention from Supreme Court, which has labored to interpret ACCA five times in as many years and has produced an inconsistent patchwork of decisions. 5 The Justices themselves have described ACCA's residual clause as nearly impossible to apply consistently.6 This difficulty has caused numerous splits among circuit courts, the resolution of which could occupy [the Supreme Court] for years.7 The Court's own efforts to resolve splits have fared no better, having been criticized as piecemeal, suspenseful, [and] Scrabble-like.8 Nor has Congress escaped critical eye. One Justice labeled ACCA a drafting failure,9 and at least two Justices have urged Congress to rewrite statute from square one.10Much of difficulty that courts have faced stems from their attempts to navigate two approaches to applying ACCA's residual clause: approach and modified categorical approach. When a court considers an ACCA residual-clause case, it typically employs categorical approach, in which it looks only at fact that a defendant was convicted of a particular offense and not at how defendant actually committed crime.11 The court then asks whether conduct encompassed by elements of offense presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.12 But when statute defendant violated includes multiple categories of conduct, some of which could amount to a crime of violence and some of which could not, court may use modified categorical approach. Under this approach, court may consult a limited set of documents to determine whether jury convicted defendant of (or whether defendant pleaded to) violating part of statute that would constitute a violent felony. …" @default.
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• W853983432 title "Assessing Divisibility in the Armed Career Criminal Act" @default.
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