No. 23-5072

Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2023-07-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation
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Latest Conference: 2024-05-30 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense or federal sentencing, or the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the prior state drug offense

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the “serious drug offense” definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the federal firearm offense or federal sentencing (as the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuits have held), or the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the prior state drug offense (as the Eleventh Circuit has held).! 1 This Court has granted the petitions for a writ of certiorari in 226389, and Jackson v. United States, Case No. 22-6640, to resolve this question. Ms. Smith respectfully asks this Court to hold her petition pending its consideration of Brown and Jackson and then dispose of it as appropriate. i

Docket Entries

2024-06-03
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/30/2024.
2023-08-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-08-11
Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
2023-07-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 11, 2023)

Attorneys

Dorothy Pearl Smith
Lynn Palmer BaileyFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
Lynn Palmer BaileyFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent