No. 22-6867

Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-02-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony
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Latest Conference: 2023-03-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED L. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act because entry is not a required element of the offense. I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act because it can be committed by breaking into vehicles and structures that house only property and no people and does not present the necessary risk of violent confrontation. Il. Whether, in light of this Court’s decision in Wooden v. United States, Mr. Atkinson’s Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal without the Government alleging the different-occasions element in an indictment or acquiring a knowing and voluntary guilty plea that it could have proven that element to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. ii LIST OF ALL DIRECTLY

Docket Entries

2023-03-27
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/24/2023.
2023-03-02
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2023-02-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 29, 2023)
2022-12-23
Application (22A572) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until February 23, 2023.
2022-12-02
Application (22A572) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 25, 2022 to February 23, 2023, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

Rickie Atkinson
Jennifer C. LeistenOffice of the Federal Public Defender, EDNC, Petitioner
Jennifer C. LeistenOffice of the Federal Public Defender, EDNC, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent