SPENCER v. U.S.

No. 10-10676.

727 F.3d 1076 (2013)

Kevin SPENCER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 15, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Agne A. Krutules , Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Peggy Morris Ronca , U.S. Attorney's Office, Orlando, FL, Robert E. O'Neill , U.S. Attorney's Office, Tampa, FL, Julie Hackenberry Savell , U.S. Attorney's Office, Jacksonville, FL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before JORDAN and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and HORNBY, District Judge.


HORNBY, District Judge:

We hold that a defendant who unsuccessfully raised a career offender issue at both sentencing and on direct appeal can use a timely-filed first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to pursue the same issue when an intervening case from the Supreme Court validates his argument and applies retroactively. Under that intervening case, this defendant's third degree Florida felony child abuse conviction no longer qualifies as a predicate crime of violence...

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