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152229P.pdf 03/23/2016 United States v. Gregory Shockley
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2229
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The unchallenged statements
in the affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant application
established probable cause, and the district court did not err in denying
defendant's motion for a Franks hearing; on the question of whether
defendant qualified for sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act,
the matter must be remanded for resentencing as the court could not
conclude on this record that any of defendant's prior convictions were
violent felonies under the force clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act;
because the parties were proceeding in this case before the issuance of
the decision in Johnson, the government and the district court relied on
the residual clause to determine that defendant's prior offenses were
violent felonies and the government had no reason to submit documents
which could have established that the felonies did qualify under the force
clause; as a result, on remand, the district court is not limited to the
existing record in determining whether defendant qualified for sentencing
as an armed career criminal, and the district court may hear any relevant
evidence it could have heard at the first sentencing hearing; the court
has not yet decided whether Johnson's void-for-vagueness standard applies
to the sentencing guidelines and declines to resolve the issue or
otherwise instruct the district court in calculating defendant's advisory
guidelines range on remand.