No. 19-5923

Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony
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Latest Conference: 2020-02-28 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a 'violent felony' under the Act?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the determination of a “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a “violent felony” under the Act? This Court has granted certiorari to resolve this question in Shular v. United States, No. 18-6662. 2. Whether a district court is limited to the elements, or may rely upon non-elemental facts, to find that a defendant has three prior convictions for offenses “committed on occasions different from one another” to sentence a defendant under the increased penalties of the ACCA, § 924(e)(1)? i

Docket Entries

2020-03-02
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
2020-02-26
Supplemental brief of petitioner Jamaar Danglo Hayes filed. (Distributed)
2019-10-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
2019-10-15
Memorandum of respondent United States of America filed.
2019-09-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 15, 2019)

Attorneys

Jamaar Danglo Hayes
M. Allison GuagliardoOffice of the Federal Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent