Wallace Thornton v. United States
HabeasCorpus
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a “violent felony” under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §924(e), because (1) the “touch or strike” element in the Florida battery and aggravated battery statutes is indivisible; (2) the “deadly weapon” element in the statute is overbroad; and/or (8) the alternative causation of bodily harm element is overbroad because it does not necessitate “violent force” under Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133 (2010). i INTERESTED PARTIES There are no