UNITED STATES v. GILDERSLEEVE (2019)

MEMORANDUM **

Federal prisoner David Ernest Gildersleeve appeals from the district court’s judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate his sentence. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. Reviewing de novo, see United States v. Reves, 774 F.3d 562, 564 (9th Cir. 2014), we affirm.

Gildersleeve contends that the district court erred by denying his section 2255 motion as untimely. He asserts that his section 2255 motion is timely because he filed it within one year of the Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v. United States, ––– U.S. ––––, 135 S. Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), and the right recognized in Johnson applies to the mandatory career offender guideline under which he was sentenced. This argument is foreclosed because “Johnson did not recognize a new right applicable to the mandatory Sentencing Guidelines on collateral review.” United States v. Blackstone, 903 F.3d 1020, 1028 (9th Cir. 2018), cert. denied, ––– U.S. ––––, 139 S. Ct. 2762, 204 L.Ed.2d 1146 (2019). Contrary to Gildersleeve’s contention, our decision in Blackstone is not “clearly irreconcilable” with United States v. Davis, ––– U.S. ––––, 139 S. Ct. 2319, 204 L.Ed.2d 757 (2019). See Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 900 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). Accordingly, the district court properly concluded that section 2255(f)(3) does not apply and that Gildersleeve’s motion is untimely. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1).

AFFIRMED.