Legal Opinion · Concurrence

In re Jones

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided July 27, 2016No. 16-14053-JPublished

1Concurrence

ROSENBAUM and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges,

concurring in result:

To err is human; to forgive, divine;1 but to correct? Well ... after In re Baptiste, No. 16-13959, 828 F.3d 1337, 2016 WL 3752118 (11th Cir. July 13, 2016), that’s not something we do in this Circuit, when it comes to wrongly denied inmates’ requests for authorization to file a second or successive habeas petition. So some inmates with sentences unconstitutionally enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act may sit in prison for years beyond their constitutionally authorized sentences. Though we deeply respect our colleagues, we…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  2. Russello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Mathis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2016
  4. Felker v. TurpinSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  5. Welch v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2016

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