No. 19-7003

Quintin Wright v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-12-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony
Latest Conference: 2020-04-17
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's force clause when the statute can be committed by threatening to cause " death, or serious physical injury or substantial property damage " to another person and authoritative sources of Arkansas law indicate that "death or serious physical injury or substantial property damage " are merely alternative means of satisfying a single element of the statute?

II. Whether a conviction under Arkansas's domestic battering in the second degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's force clause when the statute criminalizes recklessly causing physical injury by means of a vehicle and authoritative state sources of Arkansas law indicate that the statutory subparts are merely alternative means, rather than elements?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's force clause

Docket Entries

2020-04-20
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
2020-03-19
Brief of respondent United States of America in opposition filed.
2020-02-10
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 19, 2020.
2020-02-07
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 18, 2020 to March 19, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-01-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 18, 2020.
2020-01-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 17, 2020 to February 18, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-12-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 17, 2020)

Attorneys

Quintin Wright
Lisa G PetersFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent