Daniels v. United States

I believe that Congress intended courts to read the silences in federal sentencing statutes as permitting defendants to challenge the validity of an earlier sentence-enhancing conviction at the time of sentencing. See United States v. Paleo, 967 P. 2d 7, 11-13 (CA1 1992), implicitly overruled by Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994). That was the practice typically followed in the lower courts before Custis. See id., at 498-499, and n. 2, 511 (Souter, J., dissenting). The courts now follow a comparable practice in respect to other sentence-enhancing factors. See, e. g., United States…