Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. United States

Kamil Hakeem Johnson seeks authorization to file a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, asserting that Miller v. Alabama, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 2460, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), which held that a sentencing scheme that requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for certain crimes committed by defendants who were under the age of 18 violates the Eighth Amendment, announced a new rule that applies retroactively, see 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2). We conclude that Mr. Johnson has made a prima facie showing, see 28 U.S.C. §§ 2255(h), 2244(b)(3)(C), that his motion contains “a new rule of…