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Brown v. United States

Petition for certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit for further consideration in light of Wooden v. United States, on April 4, 2022

Docket No.21-6448
Op. Below6th Cir.
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Issue

(1) Whether the courts should employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Armed Career Criminal Act's phrase, "committed on occasions different from one another"; and (2) whether, in the event that the Supreme Court finds the ACCA's phrase, "committed on occasions different from one another" ambiguous, it should remand Joseph Brown's case for resentencing under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2).

Proceedings & orders timeline

Nov 22, 2021
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 30, 2021)Dec 20, 2021
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 30, 2021 to January 31, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
Dec 21, 2021
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 31, 2022.
Jan 31, 2022
Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
Feb 17, 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
Mar 14, 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/18/2022.
Mar 21, 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/25/2022.
Mar 28, 2022
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2022.
Apr 4, 2022
Motion to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for a writ of certiorari GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of Wooden v. United States, 595 U. S. ___ (2022).
May 6, 2022
JUDGMENT ISSUED.

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