Eddie David Cox v. United States
FifthAmendment HabeasCorpus
Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in light of Rehaif v. United States
QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, in the first instance, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in light of Rehaif v. United States, 2019 WL 2552487 (2019)? 2. Does an original sentencing court have authority to resentence following a grant of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 relief by a different district court? 3. Does a district court commit procedural error when resentencing a defendant by basing its new sentence on the original sentence that was imposed? 4. Is asentence of 966 months on an octogenarian, a 360 percent increase above the high end of the Guidelines, substantively unreasonable? 5. Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar a court from resentencing a defendant on counts for sentences that have already been served? i