Bejarano-Urrutia v. Gonzales, ___ F.3d ___ (4th Cir. July 5, 2005) (Virginia conviction for simple involuntary manslaughter, in violation of Va. Code Ann. 18.2-36 (2004), which requires the killing of a person as a proximate result of the defendant's reckless disregard for human life, did not constitute a crime of violence aggravated felony under INA 101(a)(43)(F), 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(F), 18 U.S.C. 16, because the conclusion of the Leocal Court that "[i]n no 'ordinary or natural' sense can it be said that a person risks having to 'use' physical force against another person in the course of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and causing injury," id. at 383, strongly indicates that the result in Leocal would have been the same even had a violation of the statute there at issue required recklessness rather than mere negligence).

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