{"id":3027,"date":"2021-03-01T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T23:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T23:22:02","slug":"scotus-takes-pro-se-challenge-to-acca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Takes Pro se Challenge to ACCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ABA Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/prisoner-who-filed-pro-se-appeal-of-his-mandatory-minimum-sentence-wins-supreme-court-review\">reports<\/a> that last week the U.S. Supreme Court accepted <strong>Wooden v. United States<\/strong> for review.\u00a0\u00a0 The case involves a defendant&#8217;s pro se appeal of his enhanced sentence under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act.\u00a0 William Wooden, a habitual felon, was arrested in November of 2014 for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Due to Wooden&#8217;s prior convictions; a 1989 conviction of aggravated assault, a 1997 conviction for ten burglaries, and a 2005 conviction for burglary, he was sentenced to 15 years.\u00a0 In December of 2019 the Sixth Circuit <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca6\/19-5189\/19-5189-2019-12-19.pdf?ts=1576783912\">upheld<\/a> his conviction and sentence, rejecting Wooden&#8217;s claim that the 1997 burglaries, where he burglarized ten mini storage warehouses located at a single property, should only count as a single burglary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Sixth Circuit disposed of this claim with its 2006 holding in <strong>United States v. Hill<\/strong> finding that &#8220;using Hill as a yardstick, the same must be true for Wooden, who was convicted of burglarizing ten individual warehouses (rather than one storage business), and thus infringing upon ten distinct sets of property rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That specific issue will be the subject of the Supreme Court&#8217;s inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ABA Journal reports that last week the U.S. Supreme Court accepted Wooden v. United States for review.\u00a0\u00a0 The case involves a defendant&#8217;s pro se appeal of his enhanced sentence under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act.\u00a0 William Wooden, a habitual felon, was arrested in November of 2014 for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Due to Wooden&#8217;s prior convictions; a 1989 conviction of aggravated assault, a 1997 conviction for ten burglaries, and a 2005 conviction for burglary, he was sentenced to 15 years.\u00a0 In December of 2019 the Sixth Circuit upheld his conviction and sentence, rejecting Wooden&#8217;s claim that the 1997 burglaries, where he burglarized ten mini storage warehouses located at a single property, should only count as a single burglary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SCOTUS Takes Pro se Challenge to ACCA - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3027\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SCOTUS Takes Pro se Challenge to ACCA - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ABA Journal reports that last week the U.S. Supreme Court accepted Wooden v. 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