Legal Opinion
In re Watkins
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 17, 2015No. 15-5038PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Windy Watkins, a federal prisoner serving a sentence of 185-months’ imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, moves this Court for authorization to file a second or successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. In her supplemental brief, Watkins seeks to base her collateral attack on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), which held that the imposition of an increased sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act’s (“ACCA”) residual clause violates due process, as…
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