Source: http://immigrationandcriminal.net/offenses/penal-code-offenses/assaultive-offenses/assault-texas-penal-code-22-01/
Timestamp: 2019-08-23 13:17:32
Document Index: 166837385

Matched Legal Cases: ['§237', '§ 922', '§ 922', '§922', '§ 922', '§ 237', '§ 237']

Assault - Texas Penal Code 22.01 - Immigration and Criminal Law
Misdemeanor assault including reckless mens rea element is probably not 1) a crime of domestic violence (as defined in INA §237), 2) not a crime of violence aggravated felony, 3) nor a crime involving moral turpitude: See U.S. v. Villegas-Hernandez, 468 F.3d 874 (5th Cir. 2006); See Seerattan v. Keisler, No. 06-60636 (5th Cir. 2007). An assaultive offense that does not include reckless mens rea is a crime involving moral turpitude. Chancoy-Tonoc v. Holder, No. 12-60635 (5th. Cir., 2013).
A note of caution, in U.S. v. Castleman, 134 S.Ct. 1405 (U.S. 2014), the U.S Supreme Court addressed the question of whether a person convicted of an assaultive offense with the elements “intentionally or knowingly cause[d] bodily injury to” another had been convicted of a crime that “has, as an element, the use or attempted use of physical force” under 18 U.S.C. § 922. Castleman, 134 S.Ct. at 1409. The Supreme Court held that the “requirement of ‘physical force’ is satisfied, for the purpose of § 922, by the degree of force that supports a common-law battery conviction. Id. at 1413. In so holding, the Court explicitly rejected an interpretation under §922 that required a statute to explicitly contain an element of the use of physical force. The Court reasoned, “a ‘bodily injury’ must result from “physical force.” Id. at 1414. In a footnote, the Court distinguished between “a crime of domestic violence” under § 922 and other “crimes on violence” such as crimes of domestic violence in INA § 237(a)(2)(E)(i). The Court explicitly stated that the expansion of the term “crime of domestic violence” does not extend to INA INA § 237(a)(2)(E)(i) or similar provisions. Id. at 1411 fn 4. See U.S. v. Rico-Mejia, 859 F.3d 318, 323 (5th Cir. 2017).
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