Court Opinion

ID: 9497362
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:49:31.55091+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:09.099790
License: Public Domain

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I write separately because I agree with both the “use of force” analysis in Judge Smith’s dissent and with the interpretation of Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990) in Judge Jones’s dissent. I do not agree with the portions of Judge Jones’s dissent that indicate that the majority opinion in United States v. Vargas-Duran, 356 F.3d 598 (5th Cir.2004) (en banc), is correct. For the reasons expressed in my dissent in Vargas-Duran, I continue to believe that Vargas-Duran was wrongly decided. See Vargas-Duran, 356 F.3d at 610 (Garza, J. dissenting).