LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents two questions under the "Armed Career Criminal Act" (the "Act"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). Holding that, for purposes of sentence enhancement under the Act, the sentence imposed for a previous crime may be used to resolve uncertainties about the maximum sentence allowable for that crime, and that an attempt to violate Mass.Gen.Laws Ann. ch. 266, § 17 or 18 is a "violent felony," we vacate the sentence...
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