Alaska v. Wright
U.S. Supreme Court · decided April 26, 2021 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- April 26, 2021
- Term
- October Term 2020
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Cite as: 593 U. S. ____ (2021) 1 Per Curiam SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ALASKA v. SEAN WRIGHT ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 20–940. Decided April 26, 2021 PER CURIAM. In 2009, an Alaska jury convicted Sean Wright of 13 counts of sexual abuse of a minor. See State v. Wright, 404 P. 3d 166 , 170 (Alaska 2017). Wright finished serving his sentence in Alaska in 2016, and shortly thereafter he moved to Tennessee. Once there, he failed to register as a sex offender as required by federal law. See Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, 120 Stat. 591 , 593, 34 U. S. C. §§20911 , 20913. Wright pleaded guilty to one count of failure to register, see 18 U. S. C. §2250 (a), and ulti- mately received a sentence of time served along with five years of supervised release. See Judgment in United States v. Wright, No. 1:17–cr–00112, ECF Doc. No. 66 (ED Tenn.). During the course of those federal proceedings, Wright filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska pursuant to 28 U. S. C. §§2241 and 2254. He argued that the Alaska Supreme Court had unreasonably applied clearly estab- lished federal law when it denied his Sixth Amendment claims and affirmed his 2009 state conviction and sentence. The District Court denied the motion on the threshold…
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