Petition of the day
By Aurora Barnes
on Apr 17, 2018

Thepetition of the day is:
17-1251
Issue:Whether a court may grant a federal habeas petition collaterally challenging a sentence underJohnson v. United States, which held that a sentence enhanced under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act violated the Due Process Clause, when the sentencing judge never specifiedand therefore the record is silent onwhether the petitioners original sentence was enhanced pursuant to the ACCAs now-invalidated residual clause.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Casey v. United States
Recommended Citation:
Aurora Barnes,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Apr. 17, 2018, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/04/petition-of-the-day-1365/