No. 24-7013
Richard Schorovsky v. United States
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt
Latest Conference:
2025-05-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Texas burglary statute qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act after United States v. Stitt, given its potentially overbroad definition of burglary
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Presented Presented Presented 1. In light of United States v. Stitt , 586 U.S. 27 (2018), can the Texas burglary statute – which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible – properly be the basis for an enhanced sentence unde r the Armed Career Criminal Act, given that a person can be convicted under the statute for doing nothing more than entering a storage building with the intent to commit theft? iii Table Table Table
Docket Entries
2025-06-02
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/29/2025.
2025-05-12
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-05-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-04-10
Attorneys
Richard Schorovsky
John Andrew Kuchera — Attorney at Law, Petitioner
John Andrew Kuchera — Attorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
D. John Sauer — Solicitor General, Respondent
D. John Sauer — Solicitor General, Respondent
Sarah M. Harris — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent