No. 24-6272
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2025-02-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger V. United States retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(3)(A) to a Fifth and Sixth Amendment challenge of actual innocence on collateral review
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
1. Whether the Court ’s holding in Erlinger V. United States, 602 U.S ., 144 S. Ct. 1840,219 L. Ed. 2d 451 (2024), retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement underl8 U.S.C. § 3559 (c) (3) (A) to a Fifth and Sixth Amendment challenge of actual innocence on collateral review. 2. If so, whether the prior conviction exception announced in Alemendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S. Ct. 1219, 140 L. Ed. 2d 350 (1998) is irreconcilable with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. 2
Docket Entries
2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-01-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2024-11-05
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.