No. 23-7021

Darron Henderson v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2024-03-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: categorical-approach divisibility federal-courts mathis-standard modified-categorical-approach state-law statutory-construction third-circuit-test
Key Terms:
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2024-04-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility —which makes subsection organization dispositive, and which permits examination of facts if a statute is divisible in any way, even if it is indivisible as to the pertinent statutory alternatives —is consistent with Mathis.

Whether federal courts, in applying the categorical and modified categorical approaches, may engage in plenary statutory construction of state statutes that is inconsistent with the statutory construction rules mandated by state law.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility is consistent with Mathis

Docket Entries

2024-04-15
Petition DENIED.
2024-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
2024-03-21
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2024-03-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 18, 2024)
2024-02-07
Application (23A730) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 15, 2024.
2024-02-01
Application (23A730) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 14, 2024 to March 15, 2024, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Darron Henderson
Brett Garrett SweitzerFederal Community Defender Office for EDPA, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent