United States v. Eddy Wilmer Vail-Bailon

ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:

When I was growing up, my parents told me not to judge a book by its cover. The Supreme Court has expressed an analogous concern about concluding that a crime qualifies as a violent crime under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA’’), based solely on the name of the crime. See Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 2560, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015) (discussing whether Connecticut’s offense of “rioting at a correctional institution,” a crime that the Supreme Court characterized as “certainly soundpng] like a violent felony,” qualifies as a violent felony under…