Court Opinion

ID: 9888701
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 19:44:56.915185+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:49:55.352761
License: Public Domain

MERRITT, Circuit Judge, concurring.
I concur in Judge Moore's comprehensive and complex opinion in this case written after and in light of the court's en banc opinion in United States v. Burris , 912 F.3d 386 (6th Cir. 2019). But at the same time I continue to agree with my dissenting opinion when our panel heard the case initially in 2017. Williams v. United States , 875 F.3d 803, 809 (6th Cir. 2017). In that dissenting opinion, I concluded that United States v. Anderson , 695 F.3d 390 (6th Cir. 2012) (now apparently rejected in Burris ), was no longer applicable in light of the Supreme Court's opinion in Mathis v. United States , --- U.S. ----, 136 S. Ct. 2243, 195 L.Ed.2d 604 (2016).
Perhaps the Armed Career Criminal Act will someday be repealed.
In the last paragraph of my dissenting opinion two years ago, I pointed out what the two justices thought about this law. "Justice Breyer said, the Armed Career Criminal Act creates a 'time-consuming legal tangle.' Mathis , 136 S. Ct. at 2264 (Breyer, J., dissenting). Justice Alito agreed and referred to the analytical process simply as a 'mess.' Id . at 2269 (Alito, J., dissenting)."