No. 18-229

Ralph Curry v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2018-08-22
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion
Latest Conference: 2019-01-04
Question Presented (from Petition)

Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate the sentence based on the Court's invalidation of the residual clause in Johnson if (1) movant establishes that the sentencing court "may have" relied on the residual clause, as the Fourth and Ninth Circuits hold; or (2) must movant prove by a "preponderance of the evidence" that his sentence depends on the ACCA's residual clause, as the Third Circuit holds; or (3) must movant prove that it was "more likely than not" that the residual clause led to the enhancement—without relying on post-sentencing caselaw clarifying (confirming) that the sentencing court could not properly have relied on one of the alternative clauses, as the First, Sixth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits hold?

Whether the Court of Appeals "departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings," Rule 10, Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, when, upon reversing the District Court's grant (without a hearing) of petitioner's motion to vacate, it ordered that the motion be dismissed, rather than remanding for a hearing, as mandated by 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a sentencing court may grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence based on the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause in Johnson v. United States, and the appropriate standard of proof required for the movant to establish that the sentencing court relied on the residual clause

Docket Entries

2019-01-07
Petition DENIED.
2018-12-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
2018-12-19
Reply of petitioner Ralph Curry filed. (Distributed)
2018-12-04
Memorandum of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2018-11-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 5, 2018.
2018-11-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 21, 2018 to December 5, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-10-22
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 21, 2018.
2018-10-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 22, 2018 to November 21, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-09-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 22, 2018.
2018-09-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 21, 2018 to October 22, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-08-28
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Ralph Curry.
2018-08-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 21, 2018)

Attorneys

United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Ralph Curry
Howard Milton SrebnickBlack Srebnick Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A., Petitioner