Daniels v. United States

Daniels v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 8, 2001 Decided April 25, 2001
Full case name	Daniels, Petitioner, v. United States, Respondent
Citations	532 U.S. 374 (more) 121 S. Ct. 1578; 149 L. Ed. 2d 590
Case history
Prior	On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Holding
A federal defendant, sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, may not challenge his federal sentence through a motion that his prior convictions were unconstitutionally obtained.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Concurrence	Scalia
Dissent	Souter, joined by Stevens, Ginsburg
Dissent	Breyer
Laws applied
Armed Career Criminal Act

Daniels v. United States, 531 U.S. 374 (2001), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Court ruled, in a 5–4 decision, that a defendant sentenced under that Act could not challenge previous convictions on appeal that were used to increase his new sentence.