Borden v. United States

Borden v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 3, 2020 Decided June 10, 2021
Full case name	Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States
Docket no.	19-5410
Citations	593 U.S. 420 (more) 141 S. Ct. 1817 210 L. Ed. 2d 63
Case history
Prior	United States v. Borden, 769 F. App'x 266 (6th Cir. 2019) Cert. granted, 140 S. Ct. 1262 (2020)
Holding
A criminal offense with a mens rea of recklessness does not qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Plurality	Kagan, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor, Gorsuch
Concurrence	Thomas (in judgment)
Dissent	Kavanaugh, joined by Roberts, Alito, Barrett
Laws applied
Armed Career Criminal Act

Borden v. United States, 593 U.S. 420 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the classification of prior convictions for "violent felony" in application of Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA); the ACCA provides for enhanced sentencing for convicted criminals with three or more such felonies in their history. In a 5–4 decision in June 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that crimes resulting from reckless conduct should not be considered as a "violent felony" for the purposes of the ACCA.