United States v. Harris

*1262TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.

The issue in this appeal questions what should be the obvious: That statutory robbery is a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). But in the last twelve months, eleven circuit-level decisions have reached varying results on this very narrow question—in examining various state statutes, five courts have found no violent felony and six have found a violent felony. So the obvious may not be so plain. Upon independent examination of the Colorado robbery statute here, however, we believe Colorado robbery qualifies as a violent felony because it has as…