No. 24-6272

In Re Benjamin Shipley

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2025-01-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2025-02-21
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S., 144 S. Ct. 1840, 219 L. Ed. 2d 451 (2024), retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3559 (c) (3) (A) to a Fifth and Sixth Amendment challenge of actual innocence on collateral review.

2. If so, whether the prior conviction exception announced in Alemendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S. Ct. 1219, 140 L. Ed. 2d 350 (1998) is irreconcilable with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger V. United States retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(3)(A) to a Fifth and Sixth Amendment challenge of actual innocence on collateral review

Docket Entries

2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-01-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2024-11-05

Attorneys

Benjamin Shipley
Benjamin F. Shipley Jr. — Petitioner