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RICE v. RIVERA

Nos. 08-8191, 09-6001.

617 F.3d 802 (2010)

Timothy A. RICE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. M.L. RIVERA, Warden, Respondent-Appellee. Timothy A. Rice, Petitioner-Appellant, v. M.L. Rivera, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: September 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Stephen Rawson , Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant. Jeffrey Mikell Johnson , Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: James E. Coleman, Jr. , Sean E. Andrussier , Michael Gilles , Brian Kappel , James McKell , Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant. W. Walter Wilkins , United States Attorney, Robert F. Daley, Jr. , Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Reversed and remanded with directions; authorization denied by published per curiam opinion.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

In 1990, appellant Timothy Rice was convicted in the District of South Carolina of using a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense, in contravention of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). In 2008, Rice sought habeas corpus relief, maintaining that his § 924(c) conviction had been rendered illegal by the Supreme Court's decision in Bailey v. United States, 516 U.S. 137, 116 S.Ct...

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