Christopher Stowell v. United States
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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
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