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Rh term in state law to drive the expansion of a federal statute targeted at violent recidivists. Florida law applies the label “robbery” to crimes that are, at most, a half-notch above garden-variety pickpocketing or shoplifting. The Court today does no service to Congress’ purposes or our own precedent in deeming such crimes to be “violent felonies”–and thus predicates for a 15-year mandatory-minimum sentence in federal prison.

I respectfully dissent.