No. 21-6067
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility
IFP
Tags: constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2022-01-07
Question Presented (from Petition)
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes meet the threshold of "(1) actual violence, (2) a threat of violence, or (3) substantial impact upon the victim such that harm results," unconstitutional in light of this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591, 135 S. Ct. 2551, 192 L. Ed. 2D 569 (2015); Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 1204, 200 L.Ed.2d 549 (2018), and United States v. Davis, ___ U.S. ___, 139 S. Ct. 2319, 204 L.Ed.2d 757 (2019)?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Is a judicially crafted residual clause unconstitutional?
Docket Entries
2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-10-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 24, 2021)
Attorneys
Johnnie Wills
Jeremy Benjamin Cooper — Blackwater Law PLLC, Petitioner
Karen Pszczolkowski
Lindsay Sara See — Office of the West Virginia Attorney General, Respondent