Erlinger v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 21, 2024 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 21, 2024
- Term
- October Term 2023
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Gorsuch
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 602 U. S. Part 1 Pages 821–898 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 21, 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 821 Syllabus ERLINGER v. UNITED STATES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the seventh circuit No. 23–370. Argued March 27, 2024—Decided June 21, 2024 Paul Erlinger pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a frearm in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 922(g). At sentencing, the judge found Mr. Er- linger eligible for an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Crimi- nal Act, § 924(e)(1), which increases the penalty for a § 922(g) conviction from a maximum sentence of 10 years to a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years when the defendant has three or more qualifying convictions for offenses committed on different occasions. Subsequently, the Sev- enth Circuit held in unrelated decisions that two of the offenses on which the government relied for Mr. Erlinger's sentence enhancement no longer qualifed as ACCA predicate offenses. The District Court va- cated Mr. Erlinger's sentence and…
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