Stuckey v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

J. PAUL OETKEN, District Judge:

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Petitioner Sean Stuckey seeks relief from a sentence imposed under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). The applicability of the ACCA’s fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence to Stuckey hinges on whether his two prior convictions for Robbery in the First Degree under New York law, N.Y. Penal Law § 160.15, constitute “violent felonies” under the ACCA. Because the Court concludes that they do, the petition is denied.

I. Background

On January 10, 2008, Sean Stuckey was sentenced to imprisonment…