Winstead v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “'A person commits the offense of carjacking if, by any means, that person knowingly or recklessly by force or violence, whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, or attempts to do so, shall take from another person immediate actual possession of a person's motor vehicle.' " (Emphases added.) (quoting D.C. Code § 22 - 2803 (2001)). As the foregoing analysis shows, the carjacking statutes used in the federal system - 33 - No. 1-12-0654 and in other states, are far from "almost identical”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Reese

2. “[w]hile [the victim] remained at the wheel, it was [the defendant] who directed her movements and usurped actual physical control of the vehicle. It was no less a carjacking because [the defendant] took his victim along with the car.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Reese