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James v. United States, 550 U.S. 192 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that attempted burglary could serve as a predicate felony under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), which provided that a person convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm with three prior convictions for either serious drug offenses or violent felonies must be ...
Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 (1990), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that filled in an important gap in the federal criminal law of sentencing. The federal criminal code does not contain a definition of many crimes, including burglary, the crime at issue in this case.
R v Collins 1973 QB 100 was a unanimous appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales which examined the meaning of "enters as a trespasser" in the definition of burglary, where the separate legal questions of an invitation based on mistaken identity and extent of entry at the point of that beckoning or invitation to enter were in question.
Laws applied Armed Career Criminal Act Stitt , 586 U.S. ___ (2018), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the term " burglary " in the Armed Career Criminal Act includes burglary of a structure or vehicle that has been adapted or is customarily used for overnight accommodation.
Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969), was a 1969 United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that police officers arresting a person at his home could not search the entire home without a search warrant, but that police may search the area within immediate reach of the person without a warrant. [1]
Charges filed in Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes home burglary cases. Steve Gardner, USA TODAY. Updated February 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM.
The homeowner is now calling out San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin for his handling of repeat offenders, saying if he doesn't prosecute, she'll take the case to the feds. EXCLUSIVE: New SF burglary ...
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana overruled his objection and re-imposed the 15-year sentence. [2] Erlinger appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which affirmed his sentence, holding that the government was only required to prove the burglary question to the judge by a preponderance of the evidence, as opposed to beyond a ...