Legal Opinion
Edward Dembry v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 5, 2019No. 17-2849PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Edward Keith Dembry appeals the district court's 1 order dismissing his petition to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 . Following his conviction for possession of ammunition as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1), Dembry was sentenced as an armed career criminal to 265 months' imprisonment. We affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal. United States v. Dembry , 535 F.3d 798 (8th Cir. 2008).
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") was unconstitutionally vague. 2 Johnson v. United…
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