Legal Opinion
Kevin Spencer v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 2014No. 10-10676PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns whether a federal prisoner may relitigate an alleged misapplication of the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines in a collateral attack on a final sentence. After he pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine and we affirmed the judgment against him, Kevin Spencer moved to vacate his sentence of imprisonment, 28 U.S.C. § 2255, for an alleged error in the application of the advisory guidelines. Spencer argues that an intervening decision of the Supreme Court, Begay v. United States, 553 U.S. 137, 128 S.Ct. 1581, 170 L.Ed.2d 490 (2008), makes…
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