Legal Opinion
United States v. Jesse Pawlak
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 13, 2016No. 15-3566PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGriffin, J., joined by Boggs, J.,
GIBBONS, J. (pp. 913-14), delivered a separate concurring opinion.
OPINION
GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.
In this case, we consider whether the Supreme Court’s holding in Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), that the Armed Career Criminal Act’s “residual clause” is unconstitutionally vague, compels the same result for an identical “residual clause” in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. In light of Johnson, and given the legal force of the Guidelines as the framework for sentencing, we join the majority of our sister circuits in invalidating the Guidelines’ “residual…
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