Court Opinion

ID: 9498921
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:32:27.854944+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:59:10.041951
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CALABRESI, J.,
concurring.
I join fully in Judge Raggi’s opinion. I write separately to note that the cases in this area are somewhat difficult to reconcile with each other. That is, there are some cases in which we have held that a conviction involved a crime of violence, see, e.g., Chery v. Ashcroft, 347 F.3d 404 (2d Cir.2003) (statutory rape), that seemed to me to involve less risk of intentional use of physical force than other cases in which we have come out the other way,see, e.g., Dalton v. Ashcroft, 257 F.3d 200 (2d Cir.2001) (driving while intoxicated). It might be desirable if the Supreme Court or Congress were to give the circuits additional guidance in this area. That said, for all the reasons given in Judge Raggi’s opinion, the particular crime of first-degree manslaughter as defined by New York, viewed categorically, fits very easily on the side of the spectrum of those we have held to be crimes of violence.