United States Second Circuit

The district court's grant of defendant's habeas petition is reversed where conviction under Conn. Gen. Stat. section 53a-71 is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. section 16(b), constituting a removable, aggravated felony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/17/2003
• Published 10/17/2003

Judges

• McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge., Before:  VAN GRAAFEILAND, McLAUGHLIN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Janice K. Redfern,Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;  Christopher C. Fuller, Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.) for Respondent-Appellant., Michael G. Moore, Springfield, MA, for Petitioner-Appellee.