No. 25A653

Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2025-12-04
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Experienced Counsel
Tags: actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory minimum fifteen-year sentence in a noncapital case can assert the actual innocence exception to procedural bars on habeas corpus relief.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an individual who did not actually commit three qualifying predicate offenses can assert an actual innocence exception to procedural bars on habeas corpus relief under the Armed Career Criminal Act

Docket Entries

2025-12-05
Application (25A653) granted by Justice Barrett extending the time to file until February 7, 2026.
2025-12-01
Application (25A653) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 9, 2025 to February 7, 2026, submitted to Justice Barrett.

Attorneys

Michael Lairy
Andrew Timothy TuttArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent