No. 19-7604

Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-07
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-03-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED In 1996, when the guidelines were mandatory, Richard Lumpkin, was sentenced as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. His career offender designation depended on the fact that he had prior convictions for California burglary and attempted burglary, which at the time qualified as a crime of violence only under the residual clause in § 4B1.2(a)(2). In 2015, this Court struck down as void for vagueness the identical residual clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act’s definition of “violent felony” at 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii). Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015). Within a year, Lumpkin filed a § 2255 motion challenging his career offender designation in light of the new rule announced in Johnson. But the district court dismissed the motion as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3) as required by the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Raybon v. United States, 867 F.3d 625 (6th Cir. 2017), in which it held that the new tule announced in Johnson does not apply to the mandatory guidelines unless and until this Court says So. The questions presented are: I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000)? Il. Whether the residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000), is void for vagueness? i

Docket Entries

2020-03-23
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in <i>Brown</i> v. <i>United States</i>, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
2020-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
2020-02-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2020-02-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Richard Lumpkin
Michael Clark HolleyOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent