Williams v. United States
Petition for certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit for further consideration in light of Wooden v. United States, on April 4, 2022
Issues: (1) Whether sequential drug transactions over a short time frame are “committed on occasions
different from one another” for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act when the same
undercover law enforcement officer repeatedly bought personal-use amounts of a controlled
substance from a suspect; and (2) whether, in the absence of an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement, a prosecutor’s
increased sentencing recommendation and a district court’s imposition of a longer sentence
following a defendant’s attempt to preserve objections to a presentence investigation report
amount to prosecutorial or judicial vindictiveness, or whether the more onerous recommendation and
sentence are legitimate responses to the defendant’s purported failure to accept responsibility for his
offense.
