No. 18-8435

Roy Allen Green v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-04-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague, apply to an identically worded provision in a different mandatory sentencing scheme, that is, the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Guidelines or does this application require recognition of a 'new right'?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED In Johnson v. United States, 1385 8S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court held unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)Gi). And in Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), this Court held that Johnson announced a new substantive rule of constitutional law that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review. A motion to correct sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is timely when filed within one year of “the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by this Court, if that right has been newly recognized by this Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review.” 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3). The question presented is: 1. Whether this Court’s rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague, apply to an identically worded provision in a different mandatory sentencing scheme, that is, the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Guidelines or does this application require recognition of a “new right”? i

Docket Entries

2019-04-15
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in Brown v. United States, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
2019-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
2019-03-22
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2019-03-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 15, 2019)
2019-02-01
Application (18A792) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 8, 2019.
2019-01-29
Application (18A792) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 6, 2019 to March 8, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Roy Green
Frederick William UlrichFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
Frederick William UlrichFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent