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John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States

IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 19-60731 · judgment January 25, 2021


Certiorari denied · November 1, 2021

Question presented

The overall issue is whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability. The underlying issue is whether Mr. Johnson is entitled to resentencing without applying the Armed Career Criminal Act because post-Johnson and post-Borden, he no longer has three prior qualifying “violent felony” convictions that are required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act’s sentencing provisions.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael Scott

For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 01 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 07 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/29/2021.
  3. Sep 17 2021
    Memorandum of respondent United States of America filed.
  4. Aug 19 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including September 17, 2021.
  5. Aug 18 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 18, 2021 to September 17, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
  6. Jul 16 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 18, 2021.
  7. Jul 15 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 19, 2021 to August 18, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
  8. Jun 14 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 19, 2021)