Wooden v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 7, 2022 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- March 7, 2022
- Term
- October Term 2021
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Kagan
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 595 U. S. Part 2 Pages 360–397 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT March 7, 2022 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. Syllabus WOODEN v. UNITED STATES certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit No. 20–5279. Argued October 4, 2021—Decided March 7, 2022 A jury convicted William Dale Wooden of being a felon in possession of a frearm in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 922(g). The Government asked the District Court to sentence Wooden under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). ACCA mandates a 15-year minimum penalty for § 922(g) offenders with at least three prior convictions for specifed felonies “committed on occasions different from one another.” § 924(e)(1). Wooden's relevant criminal record included ten burglary convictions arising out of a single criminal episode in 1997, during which Wooden had unlawfully entered a one-building storage facility and stolen items from ten different storage units. Prosecutors indicted Wooden on ten counts of burglary—one for each storage unit—and Wooden pleaded guilty to all…
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