No. 18-7096

Reinaldo Santos v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2018-12-19
Status: GVR
Type: IFP
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: 2019-05-16 (distributed 4 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is the 'touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States, permitting application of the 'modified categorical approach'?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Is the “touches or strikes’ language in the Florida battery statutes | | divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013) and Mathis v. | United States, 186 S.Ct. 2248 (2015), permitting application of the “modified | categorical approach,” or rather, is “touches or strikes” a single indivisible element, | requiring the categorical approach, and a finding under Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 1383 (2010) that a Florida battery on a law enforcement officer conviction is categorically overbroad vis-a-vis the ACCA’s elements clause? 2. If a statute is divisible under Descamps and Mathis, does the “modified categorical approach” permit a district court in an ACCA case to consider | undisputed factual allegations in the federal Pre-Sentence Investigation Report to | determine which statutory alternative was the basis of the conviction, or — for Sixth | Amendment reasons — is the Court’s consideration under the “modified categorical | approach” restricted to conclusive documents from the state-criminal case? | 3. Is an offense with a reckless mens rea ~ such as Florida aggravated | assault on an officer — a “violent felony” within the ACCA’s elements clause, which . requires that the offense “have as an element the use ... of physical force against the person of another”? : 4. Did the Eleventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell, 587 U.S. 322, 336-338 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 187 S.Ct. 759, 773-774 (2017) in denying Petitioner a certificate of appealability based upon adverse circuit precedent, when all of the above issues are nonetheless debatable among reasonable jurists? _i ; | INTERESTED PARTIES ‘ | i There are no

Docket Entries

2019-06-21
JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2019-05-20
Motion to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for a writ of certiorari GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of the position asserted by the Solicitor General in his brief for the United States filed on March 21, 2019. Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins, dissenting. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-7096_5i36.pdf'>Opinion</a>)
2019-05-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
2019-05-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-03-21
Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
2019-02-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 21, 2019.
2019-02-15
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 19, 2019 to March 21, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-01-18
Response Requested. (Due February 19, 2019)
2019-01-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2018-12-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 18, 2019)

Attorneys

Reinaldo Santos
Brenda Greenberg BrynFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
Brenda Greenberg BrynFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent