Samuel Gray v. United States

Samuel Gray, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition to vacate his sentence. In his § 2241 petition in the district court, Mr. Gray argued that under the new rule announced by the Supreme Court in Descamps v. United States, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 2276, 186 L.Ed.2d 438 (2013), he is actually innocent of at least one of the predicate offenses that comprised his three “serious violent felony” convictions, which required the district court to sentence him to mandatory life imprisonment. See 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c). The district…