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Steven Dotson v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 18-1701 · judgment February 3, 2020

Certiorari denied · October 13, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may the Government substitute new predicate convictions on collateral review that it did not invoke at sentencing in order to maintain the ACCA enhancement?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Donald Larry Ray Goodson
Jones Day

For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 3 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Apr 19 2021
    Rehearing DENIED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Mar 31 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
  3. Nov 17 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
  4. Nov 09 2020
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  5. Oct 13 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  6. Sep 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
  7. Sep 14 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  8. Sep 04 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 9, 2020)