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Vernon Jones v. United States
691 F. App'x 605
| 11th Cir. | 2017
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*1 Before MARTIN, JILL PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Vernon Jones appeals the district court’s order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate as time-barred. This Court granted Jones a certificate of

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appealability on whether the district court erred in dismissing Jones’s § 2255 motion as time-barred under § 2255(f)(3) on the ground that Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), does not apply to the Sentencing Guidelines. We review de novo the dismissal of a § 2255 motion as time-barred. Outler v. United States , 485 F.3d 1273, 1278 (11th Cir. 2007). The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 establishes a one year statute of limitations for filing a § 2255 motion, which runs from the latest of four possible triggering dates, including, as relevant here, “the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if that right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review.” 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3).

In Johnson , the Supreme Court invalidated as unconstitutionally vague the Armed Career Criminal Act’s residual clause. 135 S. Ct. at 2557-58. Johnson applies retroactively to cases on collateral review. See Welch v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 1257, 1264-65, 1268 (2016). But in Beckles v. United States , the Supreme Court held that the Sentencing Guidelines are not subject to a constitutional vagueness challenge, so the residual clause in the Guidelines remained valid. 137 S. Ct. 886, 894-95 (2017). Because Beckles dictates that Johnson ’s rule does not apply to the Sentencing Guidelines, the district court did not err.

AFFIRMED.

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Case Details

Case Name: Vernon Jones v. United States
Court Name: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Date Published: Jul 3, 2017
Citation: 691 F. App'x 605
Docket Number: 16-15717 Non-Argument Calendar
Court Abbreviation: 11th Cir.
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