Leggett v. Bates

How courts have described this case

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• holding that robbery under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5
• “The district court’s judgment on Shabazz’s [§ 2255] petition vacated his original sentence, substituting the court’s new, lesser sentence. The effect of our ruling vacating that judgment is to reinstate the original sentence.”
• “Scholars of the criminal law underline the inherent potential for physical harm to the victim as the explanation why robbery developed as, and continues to be treated as, an aggravated felony, generally carrying harsher punishments than other forms of larceny.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).