No. 18-8792

Mario Devant Cheers v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-04-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-05-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers's pre-Booker sentence in light of Supreme Court precedent

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED I In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) this Court initiated a twisting journey by holding unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) based upon a lack of due process. The Fifth Circuit recently held that § 924(c)’s residual clause is unconstitutionally vague in United States v. Davis, 903 F.3d 483 (Sth Cir. 2018), currently before this Court, in light of the Supreme Court case Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), which held the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 16(b)’s unconstitutionally vague. Mr. Cheers seeks to have this Court determine whether the § 924(c) count should be invalidated and whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Beckles to Mr. Cheers’s pre-Booker sentence his case in light of Supreme Court precedent. 1

Docket Entries

2019-05-20
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
2019-04-26
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-04-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 13, 2019)

Attorneys

Mario Devant Cheers
Gregory S. ParkFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent