Shabazz v. United States

LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by the United States from a grant of habeas corpus under *7428 U.S.C. § 2255 by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Stefan R. Underhill, J .) in favor of petitioner Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz, requiring reduction of Shabazz's sentence. The question presented by the appeal is whether the offense of robbery, as defined by Connecticut's basic robbery statute, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-133, is a "violent felony" as that term is used in the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). That issue turns on whether…