Given circuit precedent, state Assault statute prohibiting causing the fear of illness or injury is a valid predicate violent crime.
http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/18/07/171527P.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Not written by a barrister. The name was thought up by a second-year American law student sitting in a coffeehouse in Manhattan. Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice.
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