No. 19-7562

Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-03-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Fourth Circuit's non-traditional definition of the categorical approach permit an overbroad definition of 'serious drug offenses' for career offender purposes?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the Fourth Circuit's non-traditional definition of the categorical approach permit an overbroad definition of “serious drug offenses" for career offender purposes? See Shular v. United States, 2019 S.Ct. No. 18-6662 (January 2019) . 2. Does South Carolina's statute, So. Cal. Stat. Ann. § 44-53-445 contain an alternative means of committing the same crime, such that the statutory interpretation requires an indivisibility analysis? Mathis v. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016). 3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) support Mr. Smith's actual-innocence challenge to his conviction for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), 924(e)(1), the Armed Career Criminal Act? -L

Docket Entries

2020-03-23
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
2020-02-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-12-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 9, 2020)
2019-10-31
Application (19A476) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until December 20, 2019.
2019-10-17
Application (19A476) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 21, 2019 to December 20, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

Dalton Laquane Smith
Dalton Laquane Smith — Petitioner
Dalton Laquane Smith — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent