No. 18-7577

Roland Castro v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-01-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony
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Latest Conference: 2019-03-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner's 240-month sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) must be vacated because it is unclear whether he was sentenced under the unconstitutionally vague residual clause

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Petitioner Roland Castro, in his appeal of the district court’s denial of his second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, argued that his 240-month sentence of imprisonment, imposed under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), must be vacated because it is unclear whether the district court sentenced him under the constitutionally infirm residual clause, see Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551, 2557-58 (2015), and he has already served more than the 10-year statutory maximum that applies to him in light of United States v. Herrold, 883 F.3d 517 (Sth Cir. 2018) (en banc), petition for cert. filed, No. 17-1445 (April 18, 2018), which made clear that there is no alternative basis for holding that his prior Texas burglary convictions qualify as ACCA predicates. The Fifth Circuit, in an unpublished opinion, recognized that the district court did not state which part of the “violent felony” definition it was applying when it treated Mr. Castro as an armed career criminal. United States v. Castro, -Fed. Appx. --, 2018 WL 6070373, at *1 (Sth Cir. Nov. 20, 2018) (

Docket Entries

2019-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
2019-02-21
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-01-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 25, 2019)

Attorneys

Roland Castro
Scott Andrew MartinFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
Scott Andrew MartinFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent