Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rickey D. CHRISTIAN, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-09-16
Citations: 668 F. App'x 820
Docket Number: No. 16-35247
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rickey D. CHRISTIAN, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: HAWKINS and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 668
Pages: 820–821

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rickey D. CHRISTIAN, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-35247
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted August 29, 2016 Seattle, Washington
Filed September 16, 2016
Russell E. Smoot, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Spokane, WA.
Alison K. Guernsey, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Yakima, WA.
Before: HAWKINS and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, District Judge.
The Honorable David A. Ezra, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Ricky D. Christian appeals the district court's denial of his successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, in which he challenged his Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA")en-hanced sentence as unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States, — U.S.-, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, United States v. Aguirre-Ganceda, 592 F.3d 1043, 1045 (9th Cir. 2010), and reverse.
The district court erred in denying relief. Christian sufficiently established and the government appears to concede that, in sentencing Christian, the district court relied at least in part on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause of the ACCA's "violent felony" definition, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii), which violates Johnson, 135 S.Ct. at 2563. Under the categorical/modified categorical approach as clarified by the Supreme Court in Descamps v. United States, — U.S.-, 133 S.Ct. 2276, 186 L.Ed.2d 438 (2013), Christian does not have a sufficient number of "violent felony" predicates under the enumerated-offense clause to sustain an ACCA sentence enhancement. Cf. In re Adams, 825 F.3d 1283, 1285-86 (11th Cir. 2016) (applying Descamps retroactively to evaluate a Johnson claim raised in a second or successive § 2255 motion).
Accordingly, we reverse the district court's denial of Christian's § 2255 motion and vacate his sentence. Because Christian has already served longer than the statutory maximum sentence for a non-ACCA-enhanced felon-in-possession conviction, 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2), we direct that Christian be released immediately from custody. The Clerk of Court shall immediately notify the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons of this decision. The mandate shall issue forthwith.
REVERSED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
. The government does not contend that Christian's past convictions are "serious drug offense" predicates, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A), or "violent felony" predicates under the elements clause, id. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i).
. We deny Christian's July 6, 2016, motion for judicial notice as unnecessary. See Reid v. Johnson & Johnson, 780 F.3d 952, 962 n.4 (9th Cir. 2015) ("Judicial notice . is unnecessary for materials establishing the legal principles governing a case.").