Is carjacking a crime of violence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Solorio-Ruiz v. Sessions, 881 F.3d 733 (9th Cir. 2018):
Our recent holding in United States v. Gutierrez , 876 F.3d 1254 (9th Cir. 2017) (per curiam), is not to the contrary. There, we held that the federal offense of carjacking is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. 924(c). Id. at 1257. But the federal definition of carjacking is quite different from California's definition:
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