aggravated-felony
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6088 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Pending | IFP | administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation | A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize… |
| 25-5962 | Ismael Adan Ortiz-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Pending | IFP | administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation | A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize… |
| 25A391 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1091 | Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Presumed Complete | aggravated-felony domestic-assault federal-interpretation fifth-circuit immigration-law state-criminal-law | Whether federal authorities can ignore a State classification of its own law when determining whether a conviction constitutes an aggravated felony un… | |
| 22-6095 | Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction | Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset… |
| 22-23 | Jean Francois Pugin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | aggravated-felony board-of-immigration-appeals chevron-deference immigration-law immigration-nationality-act obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a noncitizen who is convicted of an "aggravated felony" is subject to mandatory removal and faces enh… |
| 21-5017 | Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | GVR | IFP | aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 20-8074 | Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation | This case concerns a methodological problem in applying the categorical approach. The categorical approach compares the elements of a state crime with… |
| 20-7958 | Anderson Jean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-6066 | Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order | I. Four terms ago, in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions , 137 S.Ct. 1562 (2017), this Court held that a conviction under California Penal Code § 261.5(c) … |
| 20-6049 | Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal | In Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828, 840 (1987), this Court held that the Fifth Amendment prevents the government from using a deportation order to satisfy… |
| 19-8107 | Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" app… |
| 19-946 | William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default | When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of beyond all reasonable doubt and the innocence conviction occurred be… |
| 19-6397 | Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6055 | Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense | I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts … |
| 19-28 | Kenneth Daniels v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | aggravated-felony armed-career-criminal-act attempt controlled-substances-act criminal-attempt drug-distribution immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law solicitation uniform-administration | The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) makes it a crime to "distribute * * * a controlled substance." 21 U.S.C. 841(a). The Act includes an "attempt" to … |
| 18-1593 | Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an… |
| 18-9092 | Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-7306 | Michael Martin Steele v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video | Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… |
| 18-6342 | Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |