Jaroslaw Chrzanoski 1 v. John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises from the denial by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Squatrito, J.) of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 against respondent John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States (“the government”). The District Court denied the petition, reasoning that because petitioner’s conviction of third degree assault in violation of section 53a-61 of the Connecticut General Statutes (“section 53a-61”) constituted a crime of violence as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) (“ § 16(a)”), petitioner…