No. 20-302

Steven Dotson v. United States

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-09
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response WaivedRelisted (3)
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2021-04-16 (distributed 3 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may the Government substitute new predicate convictions on collateral review that it did not invoke at sentencing in order to maintain the ACCA enhancement?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may the Government substitute new predicate convictions on collateral review that it did not invoke at sentencing in order to maintain the ACCA enhancement?

Docket Entries

2021-04-19
Rehearing DENIED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-03-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
2020-11-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
2020-11-09
2020-10-13
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
2020-09-14
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-09-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Steven Dotson
Donald Larry Ray GoodsonJones Day, Petitioner
Donald Larry Ray GoodsonJones Day, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent