The case concerns the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and how predicate offenses are considered and classified under the Armed Career Criminal Act. A predicate offense is a crime that may be or may be considered a component of a larger crime.

QUESTION PRESENTED:

Did the warrantless entry and search of petitioner's home violate his Fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure?Did the Sixth Circuit err by expanding the scope of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(1) in the absence of clear statutory definition with regard to the vague term 'committed on occasions different from one another'?"[1]

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