Altin Shuti v. Loretta Lynch

OPINION

COLE, Chief Judge.

In Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), the Supreme Court held the Armed Career Criminal Act’s residual definition of “violent felony” void for vagueness. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii). In this case, we consider whether that pathmarking decision applies to the Immigration and Nationality Act’s parallel definition of “crime of violence,” a phrase that encompasses any felony that “by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the…