No. 19-7412

Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-01-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-02-21
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 (2000)?

II. Whether the residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000), is void for vagueness?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2000)

Docket Entries

2020-02-24
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in <i>Brown v. United States</i>, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
2020-02-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
2020-01-31
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-01-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 24, 2020)
2019-12-17
Application (19A666) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 22, 2020.
2019-12-11
Application (19A666) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 23, 2019 to January 22, 2020, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Alford D. Embry, Jr.
Jennifer Niles CoffinFederal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent