December 20, 2011 - Court of Appeals Remands to District Court for Resentencing

December 20, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in favor of Mr. Kent's client, Demarick Hunter, and remanded his case to the district court for further consideration of his Begay claim that his Armed Career Criminal sentence exceeded the statutory maximum because one of his predicate offenses no longer constitutes a "crime of violence" under the Begay test.   Click here for a copy of the decision.   We thank the attorneys at Proskauer Rose in New York, Mark Harris and Emily Stern, and the attorneys at the Federal Public Defenders Office, Rosemary Cakmis and her staff, as well as Michael Rotker of the Justice Department, for their work on the case.   Mr. Hunter has been free on a habeas bond since Thanksgiving of 2010.