Byline: Derek Hawkins
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Dean Guenther v. Matthew Marske, Warden,
Case No.: 17-3409
Officials: SYKES, Chief Judge, and WOOD and BRENNAN, Circuit Judges.
Focus: ACCA-enhanced Sentence Saving-Clause
In 2005 Dean Guenther was convicted of a federal firearms crime in Minnesota and was sentenced as an armed career criminal based in part on his prior Minnesota burglary convictions. His direct appeal failed in the Eighth Circuit, as did his petition for collateral review under 28 U.S.C. 2255. He is currently serving his lengthy sentence in a federal prison in...
