United States Tenth Circuit

In a firearm possession prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where Chambers v. United States, 129 S. Ct. 687 (2009), applies retroactively on collateral review to convictions that were final at the time the case was decided by the Supreme Court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2009
• Published 12/16/2009

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Bennett of Amarillo, TX, for Defendant-Appellant., Leena Alam, Assistant United States Attorney (Thomas Scott Woodward, Acting United States Attorney, with her on the brief), Northern District of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.