Yang v. United States

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN KER YANG, Petitioner, OPINION AND ORDER v. 16-cv-441-wmc 14-cr-70-wmc UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. On June 27, 2018, the court denied petitioner Ker Yang’s motion for post- conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Yang argued that he was entitled to a reduction in his sentence under the Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v. United States,

576 U.S. 591

(2015), holding that the vagueness of the “residual clause” in the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), violated the due process clause…