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152581P.pdf 06/20/2016 Raphael Donnell v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2581
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Bowman, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Habeas. Petitioner seeks leave to file a second or
successive habeas motion under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255(h) to challenge a
sentence that was imposed after the district court applied the
career-offender sentencing guideline, USSG Section 4B1.1, in calculating
petitioner's advisory sentencing range; as the basis for the motion,
petitioner cites Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct 2551 (2015) to argue
that the residual clause of Guidelines Sec. 4B1.1(a)(2) is
unconstitutionally vague; the motion seeks to assert a new right that has
not been recognized by the Supreme Court or made retroactive on collateral
review; the motion urges the creation of a second new rule that would
apply Johnson and the constitutional vagueness doctrine to a provision of
the advisory guidelines; the court therefore concludes that the successive
motion should not be certified "to contain" a new rule made retroactive by
the Supreme Court as required by Sec. 2255(h)(2); the motion for
authorization to file a second or successive motion is denied.