VICAR-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6348 | Christopher Howard v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-procedure inter-circuit-split jury-instructions rico-conspiracy vicar-statute | 1. Whether The Second Circuit Court of Appeal's Decisions to overturn the District Court's Acquittal of Petitioner on both the VICAR and 924(c) Counts… |
| 24-5768 | James H. Roane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach criminal-statute force-clause racketeering-enterprise VICAR-statute violent-force | When a § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, must a reviewing court apply the categorical approach to the state or federal statute und… |
| 24A31 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence firearm-enhancement gang-related-crime sentencing-enhancement vicar-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5042 | Carlos Emanuel Kinard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 assault-definition circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law mens-rea racketeering-enterprise vicar-statute | If the state or federal crime incorporated into an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(3) conviction categorially does not meet the 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) definition of a… |
| 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… | |
| 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. | |
| 22-946 | Martin Jay Manley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of other circuits, in holding that for purposes of applying the categorical approach t… |
| 22-6554 | Adrian Gordon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c conspiracy-theory crimes-of-violence criminal-liability gun-enhancement pinkerton-liability racketeering vicar-statute | Are Instructions under Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) appropriate for crimes of violence in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C. § 195… |
| 21-6787 | Rondale Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but… |
| 19-5489 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether a defendant acts for the "purpose of. . . maintaining or increasing [his] position in an enterprise" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1959… |