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Daily Archives: March 30, 2010
Supreme Court Holds that Florida Battery Conviction Was Not “Violent Felony”
In a case with implications for aliens facing domestic violence deportation charges or with aggravated-felony crime of violence convictions, the U.S. Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S., 2010 WL 693687, held that the Florida felony offense of battery by “[a]ctually … Continue reading
