No. 24-6658
Donald Conelious Voltz v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error-review judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-error structural-error
Latest Conference:
2025-03-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Where a district court has erred in sentencing a defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act based on a judicial finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the predicate convictions occurred on separate occasions, is the error structural, such that harmless error review does not apply?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Where a district court has erred in sentencing a defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act based on a judicial finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the predicate convictions occurred on separate occasions, is the error structural, such that harmless error review does not apply?
Docket Entries
2025-03-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
2025-03-04
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-03-04
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-02-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 28, 2025)
Attorneys
Donald C. Voltz
Alexandria Darby — Office of the Federal Public Defender , Petitioner
United States
Sarah M. Harris — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent