Brown v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 23, 2024 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- May 23, 2024
- Term
- October Term 2023
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Alito
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 602 U. S. Part 1 Pages 101–142 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT May 23, 2024 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. OCTOBER TERM, 2023 101 Syllabus BROWN v. UNITED STATES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the third circuit No. 22–6389. Argued November 27, 2023—Decided May 23, 2024* These cases concern the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act to state drug convictions that occurred before recent technical amend- ments to the federal drug schedules. ACCA imposes a 15-year manda- tory minimum sentence on defendants who are convicted for the illegal possession of a frearm and who have a criminal history thought to dem- onstrate a propensity for violence. As relevant here, a defendant with “three previous convictions” for “a serious drug offense” qualifes for ACCA's enhanced sentencing. 18 U. S. C. § 924(e)(1). For a state crime to qualify as a “serious drug offense,” it must carry a maximum sentence of at least 10 years' imprisonment, and it must “involv[e] . . . a controlled substance . . . as defned in section…
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