924(c)
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-6263 | Freddy Abad v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis | 1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that they were; un… |
| 23-5954 | Arthur Picklo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-5896 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | §2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction | Did both the District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to Vacate, Set aside, … |
| 23A120 | Edward Eugene Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Presumed Complete | 924(c) attempted-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act-robbery rule-of-lenity | Question not identified. | |
| 22-6527 | William Langley, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation | SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a… |
| 22-5866 | Gregory A. Milton, aka G v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 924(c) categorical-approach certiorari-petition constitutional-claim hobbs-act section-924c supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor | This Court's should Grant this certiorari petition, Vacate the judgment below, and Remand (GVR), in order to allow the court of appeals to decide in l… |
| 22-5206 | Shain Duka v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation | Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction. |
| 21-7733 | Rashod Lewis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) conviction-validity crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-offense united-states-v-davis vagueness-doctrine | 1) Can a conviction and punishment stand on a non-existent stat utory offense, based on it being dismissed? 2) Was Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (1)(… |
| 21-6560 | Carlo Donato v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 20-7845 | Oscar Minaya v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states | 1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the… |
| 20-6466 | Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | IFP | 924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing | [1] WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WHERE MR. JACKSON ARGUED THAT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES … |
| 20-5787 | Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief | Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th… |
| 19-8044 | Brian Vidrine v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny? … |
| 19-7824 | Dexter Fisher v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7776 | Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review: 1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7334 | Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER FORCE REQUIRED TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY SATISFIES THE PHYSICAL FORCE STANDARD OF JOHNSON I TO CATEGORICALLY QUALIFY THE ELEMENTS CLAUSE … |
| 19-6703 | Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is... remand required i… |
| 19-5246 | Jason Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 18-9673 | George Djura Jakubec v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8266 | Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-5074 | Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce | Under the Due Process Clause, did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request/motion for an entrapment instruction when the record co… |
| 18-5052 | Thomas Cureton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | 924(c) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence interstate-communication johnson-v-united-states ransom-request residual-clause section-924c unconstitutionally-vague | Whether Mr. Cureton's § 924(c) conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Interstate Communication of… |