Rivera v. United States

Rivera asked the Supreme Court to review whether his Fifth Amendment due process rights were violated when he received a 188-month prison sentence after being treated as an armed career criminal, which increased his sentence. The Court finished this docket action without deciding that merits question, leaving the Fifth Circuit result in place.

Because the Supreme Court did not take up the case, Rivera did not get a new ruling on his due process argument. For defendants raising similar claims in the Fifth Circuit, this docket did not change the lower court's result.

There is no further Supreme Court action listed for this docket. Rivera's case remains governed by the Fifth Circuit's judgment.

He asked whether his Fifth Amendment due process rights were violated by his 188-month sentence as an armed career criminal.

Rivera is directly affected because the Supreme Court did not change the lower-court result in his case. Similar defendants in the Fifth Circuit got no new nationwide rule from this docket.

Nothing further is scheduled at the Supreme Court. The Fifth Circuit's judgment stays in place because the Court did not decide the merits.