No. 19-6510

Timothy L. Douglas v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-11-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: 28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2001)?

II. Whether the residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2001), is void for vagueness?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2001)

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in Brown v. United States, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
2019-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-20
Reply of petitioner Timothy L. Douglas filed. (Distributed)
2019-12-06
Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
2019-11-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 6, 2019)

Attorneys

Timothy L. Douglas
Jennifer Niles CoffinFederal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent