acca-enhancement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 21-7928 | Timothy Lindsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion | As required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Lindsey secured prefiling authorization from the Fifth Circuit before filing a successive motion to vacate … |
| 20-8120 | Gary Lee Willingham v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal | After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm… |
| 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.… |
| 19-5391 | Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | IFP | acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum | Both questions presented by this petition involve circuit splits. I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on … |
| 19-5217 | Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-17 | GVR | IFP | ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar | WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY MAXIMUM… |
| 18-9781 | Adam J. Winarske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to … |
| 18-5158 | Mario Lee Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability descamps-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment florida-robbery-statute sixth-amendment stokeling-v-united-states | Whether The United States Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit Erred denying petitioner .a Certificate Of Appealability (COA) request? Whether p… |