Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state’s highest court to label a mens rea as something greater than negligence when this Court has unequivocally established that the same mens rea under federal law constitutes mere negligence? 2) Where the definition of a crime of violence under federal recidivism enhancement provisions, such as U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1), include the limiting language “against the person of another,” is that language mere surplusage or must a defendant be more than negligent with respect to whether his intentional conduct could harm another? i