No. 19-6336

Eddie Jennings v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2019-10-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Guidelines

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. 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)(ii). Then 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. And this Court has applied this same rule in invalidating the nearly identical language in 18 U.S.C. § 16(b), Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), and in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019). 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

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2019-12-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-05
Reply of petitioner Eddie Jennings filed. (Distributed)
2019-11-21
Memorandum of respondent United States of America filed.
2019-10-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 21, 2019)

Attorneys

Eddie Jennings
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