Case Name: Anthony McKay WHYTE, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-03-21
Citations: 815 F.3d 92
Docket Number: No. 14-2357
Parties: Anthony McKay WHYTE, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 815
Pages: 92–93

Head Matter:
Anthony McKay WHYTE, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 14-2357.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
March 21, 2016.
Virginia Benzan, Ragini N. Shah, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA,. Anthony McKay Whyte, Willimantie, CT, for Petitioner.
Bryan Stuart Beier, Latía N. Bing, Lisa Morinelli, Anthony Wray Norwood, U.S. Dept, of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ORDER OF COURT
The petition for rehearing is denied. In Chrzanoski v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 188 (2d Cir.2003), the Second Circuit held that Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-61(a)(1) is not categorically a crime of violence as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 16(a). It reasoned that a person may cause physical injury under the Connecticut' statute by "guile, deception or deliberate omission," Chrzanoski, 327 F.3d at 195, without himself using "physical force" to cause the injury, 18 U.S.C. § 16(a). Petitioner then relied on Chrza-noski and this argument in his opening brief, Brief for Petitioner at 8, 13-16, while the government countered by arguing that the Second Circuit "incorrectly assumed that an individual could be convicted under section 53a-61(a)(l) for injury caused by 'guile, deception, or even deliberate omission,' " Brief for Respondent at 26 (quoting Chrzanoski, 327 F.3d at 195). The Court ultimately adopted Petitioner's reasoning in its opinion.
Now, for the first time, the government argues in its petition for rehearing that causing injury not only involves "physical force" in some abstract sense, but also involves the "use of physical force" by the defendant himself even if the defendant's misconduct was limited to guile, deception, or deliberate omission. Rather than distinguishing the Supreme Court's majority opinion in United States v. Castleman, — U.S. -, 134 S.Ct. 1405, 188 L.Ed.2d 426 (2014), as it did in its brief on appeal, see Brief for Respondent at 22-23, the government now points to Castleman as supporting this argument.
Because this argument was not properly developed by the government in its brief on appeal, the Court never considered it. For purposes of this case only, it was waived. Trull v. Volkswagen of Am., Inc., 187 F.3d 88, 104 (1st Cir.1999) (new arguments raised for the first time in a petition for rehearing are waived).