United States v. Tavion Da'Shaurd Warren ( 2023 )


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  • USCA11 Case: 22-11091    Document: 47-1     Date Filed: 05/01/2023   Page: 1 of 4
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    In the
    United States Court of Appeals
    For the Eleventh Circuit
    ____________________
    No. 22-11091
    Non-Argument Calendar
    ____________________
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Plaintiff-Appellee,
    versus
    TAVION DA'SHAURD WARREN,
    Defendant-Appellant.
    ____________________
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the Southern District of Florida
    D.C. Docket No. 9:21-cr-80157-DMM-1
    ____________________
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    2                      Opinion of the Court                  22-11091
    Before WILSON, ROSENBAUM, and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges.
    PER CURIAM:
    Tavion Da’Shaurd Warren appeals his conviction and sen-
    tence for, inter alia, knowingly brandishing a firearm in relation to
    a crime of violence—a carjacking—in violation of the Armed Ca-
    reer Criminal Act (ACCA), 
    18 U.S.C. § 924
    . On appeal, Warren ar-
    gues that, in light of Borden v. United States, 
    141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)
    ,
    the district court erroneously found that carjacking is a “crime of
    violence” for purposes of § 924(c).
    We review de novo whether an offense is a crime of violence
    under § 924(c). United States v. Bates, 
    960 F.3d 1278
    , 1285 (11th Cir.
    2020).
    Our prior-panel-precedent rule mandates that “a prior
    panel’s holding is binding on all subsequent panels unless and until
    it is overruled or undermined to the point of abrogation by the Su-
    preme Court or by this court sitting en banc.” United States v. Archer,
    
    531 F.3d 1347
    , 1352 (11th Cir. 2008).
    To convict a defendant for carjacking under 
    18 U.S.C. § 2119
    ,
    "the government must prove that the defendant (1) with intent to
    cause death or serious bodily harm (2) took a motor vehicle (3) that
    had been transported, shipped or received in interstate or foreign
    commerce (4) from the person or presence of another (5) by force
    and violence or intimidation." United States v. Diaz, 
    248 F.3d 1065
    ,
    1096 (11th Cir. 2001) (quoting United States v. Applewhaite, 
    195 F.3d 679
    , 684–85 (3d Cir. 1999)); 
    18 U.S.C. § 2119
    . Important here, the
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    intent element of the statute is satisfied if “at the moment the de-
    fendant demanded or took control over the driver’s automobile the
    defendant possessed the intent to seriously harm or kill the driver
    if necessary to steal the car . . . .” Holloway v. United States, 
    526 U.S. 1
    , 12 (1999).
    To qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must meet the
    definition of § 924(c)(3)(A)’s “elements clause,” which defines a
    “crime of violence” as a felony offense that “has as an element the
    use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the
    person or property of another.” 
    18 U.S.C. § 924
    (c)(3)(A).
    We have held that carjacking under § 2119 satisfies
    § 924(c)(3)(A) because it has “an element requiring that one take or
    attempt to take by force and violence or by intimidation.” In re
    Smith, 
    829 F.3d 1276
    , 1280 (11th Cir. 2016) (denying a second or
    successive 
    28 U.S.C. § 2255
     application raising a claim that, in light
    of the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Johnson v. United States, 
    576 U.S. 591
     (2015), federal carjacking was no longer a crime of vio-
    lence under the residual clause of § 924(c)(3)(B)).
    In Borden, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a criminal of-
    fense that requires only a mens rea of recklessness cannot qualify as
    a “violent felony” under the ACCA, 
    18 U.S.C. § 924
    (e). Borden, 141
    S. Ct. at 1821–22. In her plurality opinion, Justice Kagan noted that
    the 11th Circuit likewise “concluded that only a statute confined to
    purposeful or knowing conduct can count as such a violent felony.”
    Id. at 1823 n.2 (citing to United States v. Moss, 
    920 F.3d 752
     (11th Cir.
    2019), reh’g en banc granted, opinion vacated, 
    928 F.3d 1340
     (11th Cir.
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    2019), vacated and opinion reinstated, 
    4 F.4th 1292
     (11th Cir. 2021)).
    Therefore, our precedent clearly remains in line with the Supreme
    Court’s holding in Borden, and we remain bound by our previous
    holdings that carjacking is a crime of violence under § 924(c).
    Warren’s argument that federal carjacking under § 2119 is
    not a crime of violence within the meaning of § 924(c)(3)(A) is fore-
    closed by our prior-panel-precedent rule, and we affirm the district
    court’s ruling.
    AFFIRMED.