Legal Opinion
Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries-Suncoast, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 14, 2017No. 12-14989PublishedCited by 297 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether a change in caselaw entitles a federal prisoner tu an additional round of collateral review of his sentence. Congress gives a federal prisoner like Dan MeCarthan one opportunity to move to vacate his sentence unless that remedy is “inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.” 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e). When McCarthan pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), he understood that the district court would enhance his sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, id. §…
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