No. 18-5520

James Morris Sellers v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-08-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the lower courts improperly subjected the petitioner to an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act by arbitrarily and irrationally ignoring Supreme Court precedent in Mathis v. United States

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. :

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-14
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
Main Document
2018-07-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 10, 2018)
Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma PauperisPetitionAppendix

Attorneys

James Morris Sellers
James Morris Sellers — Petitioner
James Morris Sellers — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent