United States v. David Scruggs

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

David Zachary Scruggs (“Scruggs” or “Zach Scruggs”) pleaded guilty to an one-count superseding information charging misprision of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4. The district court sentenced Scruggs to fourteen months imprisonment and one year of supervised release. After he was released from prison but before the conclusion of his term of supervised release, Scruggs filed a Motion To Vacate Conviction Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. 1 In his § 2255 motion, Scruggs claimed (1) that, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Skilling v. United…