DENNISON v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Filing 7

MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER directing the Clerk to lift the stay and reopen this matter; ORDERED that the parties shall inform the Court what impact the Dimaya decision has on Petitioner's motion within 30 days of this order. Signed by Judge Noel L. Hillman on 7/2/2020. (dmr)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

TYRONE DENNISON,
Petitioner,

1:16-cv-3647 (NLH)
MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER

v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Respondent.

APPEARANCES:
Richard Coughlin, Federal Public Defender
Lisa Evans Lewis, Assistant Public Defender
Office of the Federal Public Defender
800 - 840 Cooper Street
Suite 350
Camden, NJ 08053
Attorneys for Petitioner

Craig Carpenito, United States Attorney
Robert Stigall, Assistant United States Attorney
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey
401 Market Street
P.O. Box 2098
Camden, NJ 08101
Attorneys for Defendants
HILLMAN, District Judge
WHEREAS, Petitioner Tyrone Dennison filed a motion to
correct, vacate, or set aside his federal sentence on June 20,
2016, ECF No. 1; and
WHEREAS, the parties submitted a joint motion to stay the §

2255 proceedings on April 10, 2017 pending the Supreme Court’s
decision in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), see ECF
No. 2; and
WHEREAS, the Court granted the request on January 8, 2017,
ordering that “when the Supreme Court issues its opinion in
Dimaya, the parties shall inform the Court what impact that
decision has on Petitioner’s motion.”

ECF No. 4; and

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the
Dimaya matter on April 17, 2018; and
WHEREAS, the parties have not provided any further
information to the Court,
THEREFORE, IT IS on this

2nd

day of July, 2020

ORDERED that the Clerk shall lift the stay and reopen this
matter; and it is finally
ORDERED that the parties shall inform the Court what impact
the Dimaya decision has on Petitioner’s motion within 30 days of
this order.

s/ Noel L. Hillman
NOEL L. HILLMAN, U.S.D.J.

At Camden, New Jersey

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