Court Opinion

ID: 9494762
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:45:48.10968+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:35.952420
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REAVLEY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I diverge from the majority on the construction of the definition of a “drug trafficking crime” in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The words themselves seem to me to point to any state felony that would be conduct punishable under federal law, rather than necessarily to a crime that would be punishable as a felony under federal law. I might join Chief Judge Becker’s masterful opinion, however, if we were surveying a new route; but too many circuit courts have chosen the other way and I would follow them in the interest of consistency and uniformity of federal law.
I would affirm.