United States v. Theodore Jackson

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Theodore Jackson has seen the twists and turns of American sentencing doctrine firsthand. A federal court first sentenced him under the Armed Career Criminal Act. After the Supreme Court invalidated the Act's residual clause, the court resentenced him as a career offender under the sentencing guidelines. Then the Sentencing Commission amended the guidelines to delete its residual clause. After we remanded Jackson's sentence for procedural error, the district court applied the unamended guidelines and sentenced him again as a career offender. Jackson appeals, insisting…