Legal Opinion

Shabazz v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided April 26, 2019No. Docket No. 17-167; August Term, 2017PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

*83Petitioner Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz petitions for rehearing of our decision of January 4, 2019, in which we ruled that his prior Connecticut convictions for robbery under Con. Gen. Stat. § 53a-133 qualify as predicate convictions under the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), and reinstated his original ACCA-based sentence. See Shabazz v. United States , 912 F.3d 73 (2d Cir. 2019). He contends that our disposition is incompatible with our prior holding in Villanueva v. United States , 893 F.3d 123 (2d Cir. 2018) and with…

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