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Tenth Circuit Holds Davis Retroactive, Retaliation Against a Witness Not Crime of Violence Under § 924(c)
Loaded on Dec. 17, 2019
by Dale Chappell
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2020, page 16
Filed under:
Witnesses.
Location:
United States of America.
by Dale Chappell
In a lengthy opinion addressing two issues of first impression in the circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) (holding 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness), created a new substantive right that’s ...
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