United States v. Eric Hicks

Millett, Circuit Judge:

In the mid-1990s, Eric Hicks was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment after being convicted on multiple narcotics and racketeering charges. Two decades later, Hicks sought post-conviction relief on the ground that a provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines raised at his sentencing is unconstitutionally void for vagueness, based on the Supreme Court's intervening decision in Johnson v. United States , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2551 , 2557, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015). The district court denied Hicks' motion on the merits. We affirm on the alternative ground…