Predicate-Offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6756 | Jacklin Cheramy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-statute predicate-offense recidivist-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Whether, consistent with federal statute mandating the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, a s… |
| 25-5769 | Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25A278 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act eleventh-circuit felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5013 | Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review firearms-conspiracy jury-instruction plain-error predicate-offense substantial-rights | A jury returned a general verdict finding Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr., "guilty" of violating 18 U.S.C. §924(o) where only one of the two predicate offen… |
| 24-1183 | Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law | Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the … |
| 24A953 | Luis Fernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Presumed Complete | 924c-conviction crime-of-violence general-verdict hobbs-act-robbery predicate-offense residual-clause | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6474 | Leonard Morrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense | Does the recent Supreme Court ruling in *Erlinger v. United States*, 602 U.S. (2024), render unconstitutional the enhancements imposed under the Armed… |
| 24-6287 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography federal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction | Whether a district court may impose an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. 2252A(b)(2) based on a prior state conviction "relating to"… |
| 24-6235 | Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration | Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony off ense involving a n … |
| 24-6192 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 24-6112 | Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines | I. Should Mr. Johnson be sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines based upon the current Circuit split of whether … |
| 24-6003 | Sydni Frazier v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant first-degree-murder jury-trial predicate-offense sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment is violated when the trial judge does not instruct the jury that it mus… |
| 24-5776 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec… |
| 24-5322 | Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-14 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense | Section 924(c) of Title 18 of the United States Code criminalizes carrying a firearm in furtherance of a "crime of violence." Per this Court's precede… |
| 24-5030 | Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 | Was it plain error for a District Court to convict Petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing Indictment? When the su… |
| 23A1167 | Jay A. Liestman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7411 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7415 | Carlos Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions pinkerton-liability predicate-offense rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vicarious-liability | 1. Whether, following this Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019), a jury instruction permitting a finding of guilt on an 18 … |
| 23-7354 | Warren Baker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a predicate "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 23A979 | Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | crime-of-violence firearms-statute predicate-offense racketeering rico sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1168 | Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence mens-rea predicate-offense racketeering-enterprise vicar VICAR-statute | The question presented is whether, when a defendant's § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, a court must apply the categorical approac… | |
| 23-6969 | James Paul Antonio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23A770 | Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 23-483 | Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion. Whether the E… |
| 23-5925 | Isaac Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver | Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons… |
| 23-5725 | Edward Troup v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations | Does a federal antiracketeering statute, conviction for which is predicated on the commission of a murder "in violation of the laws of any State," rea… |
| 23-5655 | Christopher T. Mallett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause. |
| 23A227 | Calvin Cogdill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-11 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act felon-in-possession-of-firearm mandatory-minimum-sentence predicate-offense preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23A106 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7736 | Brandon Ross Williams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing | Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7682 | Tyrin Gayle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity | I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief? II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-7527 | Adam Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-6968 | Thomas Marmolejos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing | Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio… |
| 22-6466 | Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-6358 | Bernard Thomas Edmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 924(c)(3) armed-career-criminal-act due-process hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense residual-clause sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously decided that the petitioner's predicate offense for his Sec. 924© is the conspiracy charge and … |
| 22-6194 | Jordan Huff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | 1. Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is a double-barreled crime that, at least in the context of aiding and abetting, requires proof both of a defendant's acti… |
| 22-10 | David Fox Dubin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 21-8221 | Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson | WHETHER OR NOT THE NORTH CAROLINA CRIME OF BREAKING AND ENTERING (N.C. GEN STAT. §14-54), AS DEFINED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA SUPRME COURT, CAN BE UTILIZ… |
| 21-8199 | Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur | Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-8051 | Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule in Villavicencio-Burruel, which requires that a prior conviction under California Penal Code § 245(a)(1) constitute a… |
| 21-7714 | Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to "look through" the … |
| 21-7624 | Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any person can be charged … |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-1118 | Duianete Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-6844 | Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr… |
| 21-6524 | Joshua James Mjoness v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-6234 | Edward Stain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
| 21-6076 | Lukeen Gerald v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C § 1951 (a) remains a predicate crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C § 924(c) under the elements clause after… |
| 21-6002 | Mario Bachiller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | "It has long been settled that when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories the unconstitutionality of any of the theories requires th… |
| 21-482 | Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response Waived | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis | Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o… |
| 21-5563 | William Ferguson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-242 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense section-924c statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether a defendant's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) should be vacated, where each § 924(c) charge had, as an underlying predicate, a vi… |
| 21-5132 | Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | (1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 21-56 | Timothy Muir v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury | The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 21-5099 | Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a "controlled substance" by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5028 | David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 20-7497 | Kevin Reid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage | 1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at… |
| 20-7465 | Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The District Court Judge sentenced the Petitioner to life in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine , 21 U.S.C. Sect. 841(a)(… |
| 20-7439 | Michael Luis Suarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement | Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-7430 | Carlos Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 categorically qualifies as a predicate "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)… |
| 20-7352 | In Re Henry Lee Rudolph | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion | Did the Utah Supreme Court commit fraud by stating The Framers rights were desired by and Rodelph requested, and by stating Three Tiered banner Violat… | |
| 20-7235 | Michael Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 20-7213 | Nathan Ray Dent v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924… |
| 20-7126 | Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents | I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a … |
| 20-6458 | Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether the "statute of conviction" must be used for an ACC A predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment in… |
| 20-5636 | Miguel Figueroa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5640 | Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5595 | Joshua Glen Box v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5585 | Denis Nikolla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test | In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 20-5515 | In Re Tracey A. Merrill | 2020-08-27 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | IS THIS A DISTORTION OF JUSTICE WAS EXTREME MALICE DISPLAYED IN THIS CASE | |
| 20-5457 | Dennis A. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 19-8489 | Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement | #1. Does a Juvenile Conviction for "Possession" of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement when 18 U.S.… |
| 19-8043 | Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a "crime of violence" that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 19-7780 | Frank Harper v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking-by-intimidation collateral-review consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure dean-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Predicate-Offense retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. A. Should certiorari be granted to determine whether Harper was denied the effective assistance of counsel for the failure to challenge on appeal a… |
| 19-7664 | Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7417 | Corey Michael Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Can a the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-7363 | Richard Grady Romans v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a felon who possesses a firearm is subject to an enhanced sentence if he has three p… |
| 19-7313 | Dalton Crutchfield v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7260 | Darin Kaufmann v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7006 | Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Petitioner Alvin Drummond presents two questions for this Court's review: 1. Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additiona… |
| 19-774 | Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a … |
| 19-6939 | Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | WHETHER A STATE DRUG STATUTE, THAT IS EITHER COMPLETELY INDIVISIBLE OR AT MOST ONLY DIVISIBLE INTO NO MORE THAN THREE GENERALLY SEPARATE OFFENSES, ALL… |
| 19-6693 | Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty | The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide… |
| 19-594 | Mahmoud Thiam v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | american-constitutional-limitations american-court constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process foreign-statute official-act predicate-offense predicate-prosecution vagueness-doctrine | 1. Where a foreign statute is used as a predicate to prosecution in a United States court, including but not limited to the vagueness doctrine, are th… |
| 19-6229 | John Joseph Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching | I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-5789 | Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | 1. Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Senten… |
| 19-5096 | Nicholas Rivera v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5100 | Matthew Karahalios v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation | 1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 18-9364 | Javontae Tyree Street v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off… |
| 18-9183 | Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute | Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a… |
| 18-9086 | Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE FOUR LEVEL ENHANCEMENT FOR POSSESSING A FIREARM IN CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER FELONY OFFENSE PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) APPLY WHEN … |
| 18-8725 | Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8380 | Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses | 1. Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as "serious drug offenses" for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii). 2. Whether Flor… |
| 18-8320 | Darius Andre Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states | This Court should grant the writ because the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring … |
| 18-7797 | Coree Patrick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation | TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-7663 | Randy Jason Ford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force | When an Iowa "assault" is accompanied only by the "display" of a dangerous weapon, does the "displaying" provide the "threatened use of force" such th… |
| 18-7287 | Lamont LaPrade v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense. 2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… |
| 18-851 | Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … |
| 18-6993 | Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6900 | Jacob Scott Watters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions | As written, and by the actual language used in the Statute, is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) in excess of Congress' Powers under the Commerce Clause to. regulate… |
| 18-6706 | Jeremiah Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a Tennessee aggravated assault conviction, which does not require proof that the defendant caused serious bodily injury or used or displayed a… |
| 18-6711 | Ricardo Deleon Colon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm criminal-sentencing curtis-johnson eleventh-circuit johnson-standard predicate-offense united-states-v-castleman united-states-v-vail-bailon violent-force | In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the elements clause of the Armed Career C… |
| 18-6705 | Richard A. Jiles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary divisibility divisible-statute felon-in-possession georgia georgia-burglary-statute predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement | Was correct to find that Mr. Jiles' prior burglary conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 was a predicate offense under the ACCA, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? |
| 18-6301 | Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution | A "serious drug offense," under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.s.c. § 924(e), is one involving manufacturing, distribution or possessing with int… |
| 18-6317 | Desmond DeWayne Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach eleventh-circuit mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing united-states-v-ovalles | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the convictions for Burglary in the first degree under Alabama law qualified as a … |
| 18-6302 | Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether Hobbs Act robbery as set forth as a predicate felony offense in Count 4 of the Second Superseding Indictment qualifies as a "crime of violence… |
| 18-6097 | Leonard G. Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony | I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-5210 | Robert A. Espinoza v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation | Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … |
| 18-5105 | Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | Whether in its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, and based upon this Court's clear precedent and the facts of record, thi… |