No. 23-6340

Christopher Stowell v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-12-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial occasions-clause prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement
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Latest Conference: 2024-07-01 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed on occasions different from one another

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant’s prior convictions were “committed on occasions different from one another,” as is necessary to impose an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). 2. Whether, in light of the multifactor test required by Wooden v. United States, 595 U.S. 360 (2022), a court may properly conduct a harmlesserror analysis concerning an occasions-clause question based solely on information found in the charging documents from the defendant’s prior convictions when there was no admissible evidence in the record from which a jury would have been able to decide the question below, and without considering whether a defendant’s prior convictions arose out of a single episode of criminal conduct. ii

Docket Entries

2024-07-02
Petition DENIED.
2024-06-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2024.
2024-02-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/23/2024.
2024-01-22
Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
2023-12-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 22, 2024)

Attorneys

Christopher Stowell
Christopher Aaron HoltOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Respondent