FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy
Whether a Florida controlled substances offense can qualify as a predicate 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substance, can qualify as a predicate “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act? Il. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that the fact of a defendant’s prior conviction be alleged in the indictment and submitted to a jury if the Government intends to use that prior conviction to trigger a sentencing enhancement that would increase the mandatory minimum penalties that the defendant is facing? Ill. Whether law enforcement violated the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights when it searched the Petitioner residence during a warrantless probation “compliance search”? ii