No. 19-6336

Eddie Jennings v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2019-10-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague, apply to an identically worded provision in a different mandatory sentencing scheme, that is, the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Guidelines or does this application require recognition of a "new right"?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Guidelines

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2019-12-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-05
Reply of petitioner Eddie Jennings filed. (Distributed)
2019-11-21
Memorandum of respondent United States of America filed.
2019-10-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 21, 2019)

Attorneys

Eddie Jennings
Frederick William UlrichFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent