Legal Opinion

Johnson v. United States

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided July 11, 2025No. 1:15-cv-03956Unknown

1Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -v- No. 11-cr-487-2 (RJS) JOHN JOHNSON, Defendant. JOHN JOHNSON, Petitioner, No. 15-cv-3956 (RJS) -v- MEMORANDUM & ORDER UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. RICHARD J. SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge: John Johnson brings this petition pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 2255

to vacate his conviction and sentence, which he asserts are invalid in light of the Supreme Court’s decisions in United States v. Davis,

588 U.S. 445

(2019), and United States v. Taylor,

596 U.S. 845

(2022). (See Doc. No. 187.)1 For the reasons set forth below,…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Coppedge v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. United States v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 2019
  4. United States v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2022
  5. Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2017

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