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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6910 | Delmart Edward Vreeland v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | apprendi-violation armed-career-criminal-act blakely-violation fifth-amendment-due-process habitual-criminal-sentencing sixth-amendment-jury-trial | Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was subjected to an increased maximum sentence based on the trial court's … |
| 25-821 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim… | |
| 25-6454 | Derek Capozzi v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-retroactivity residual-clause section-2255 sentence-enhancement | 1. Whether, to qualify under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 for relief from a sentence enhancement imposed by operation of the now abrogated residual clause of 18 U… |
| 25-6442 | Michael Hinds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac… |
| 25-6432 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of "serious drug offense" or … |
| 25A717 | Marquise Graham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Application | armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A653 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Application | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min… | |
| 25-5817 | Kyle Krill v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-10-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of "separate acts or transactions" is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi… |
| 25-5654 | Thomas Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents sixth-amendment | Because harmless-error review of Erlinger error typically requires appellate judges to evaluate facts outside the record of conviction for the charged… |
| 25-5650 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment | (1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa… |
| 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. | |
| 25-5333 | Mark William Sain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment harmless-error plea-proceeding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding o… |
| 25-5258 | James Joseph Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic… |
| 25-5179 | Gerald Lynn Campbell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act erlinger-error guilty-plea harmless-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | This case presents two important questions that impact countless defendants and have divided circuit judges. After Gerald Campbell pled guilty to bei… |
| 25A16 | Thomas Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error-review jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5018 | Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error judicial-review sentencing-error | Petitioner Lakeith Lynn Washington was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) to 180 months of imprisonment, despite the fact that the i… |
| 24-7460 | Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen… |
| 24A1181 | Mark William Sain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7290 | Paul Curry, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law harmless-error second-amendment sentencing-procedure | First, whether as several courts of appeal have held, all Apprendi errors including Erlinger violations should be treated as trial errors subject to t… |
| 24-7147 | Idris Quintell Wilkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act cocaine-definition controlled-substances due-process sentencing-enhancement state-vs-federal-law | I. Michigan defines cocaine to include its steroisomers. Federal law defines cocaine to include its optical and geometric isomers. Does Michigan law s… |
| 24-7057 | Earl B. Penn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24-7013 | Richard Schorovsky v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt | 1. In light of United States v. Stitt , 586 U.S. 27 (2018), can the Texas burglary statute – which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible – prop… |
| 24-6658 | Donald Conelious Voltz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error-review judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-error structural-error | Where a district court has erred in sentencing a defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act based on a judicial finding by a preponderance of the e… |
| 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… |
| 24-6396 | Ryan Perrin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | I. When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (AC… |
| 24-6259 | Kenneth Wayne Gilmore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the isolated smell of marijuana--a drug that is legal for recreational use in many states and legal for medicinal use in the state of Ark… |
| 24-5837 | Ruben Aguilera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 | [1] May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the "occasions" clause of the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 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… |
| 24-5672 | Mark Leon Andrews v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review criminal-history prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments entitled the petitioner to have a jury decide below his crimes according to AS KCaStons, under the Constitution of … |
| 24-5460 | Troy L. Fields v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-09-05 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-criminal prior-convictions sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was subjected to an increased maximum sentence based on the trial court's … |
| 24-5457 | Larome Deon Waiters v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 24-5409 | Maxsony Coissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the categorical approach as applied to "violent felony" enhancements under the Armed Career Criminal Act and "crime of violence" enhanc… |
| 24-5388 | John Joseph Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure separate-offenses statutory-interpretation | I.IF A PERSON IS HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR AN OFFENSE, COMMITTED BT ANOTHER, UNDER A "REASONABLE AND FORESEEABLE ACTS" ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY STATUTE,… |
| 24A184 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5219 | Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation | 1) Whether the DisTReT COusTs dewial For sLaelh of Sues diCNow awd dew er sene of debewdauits Timely fled 2255 (1G) mation OTe SUa spoule Rechoradlarz… |
| 23-7841 | Richard Schorovsky v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents | 1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi… |
| 23-7839 | Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime | Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co… |
| 23-7478 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging all the elements necessary for conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and punishment up to 120 … |
| 23-7345 | James Joseph Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-30 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, for purposes of applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a prior conviction's elements can be d… |
| 23-7190 | Trivansky Swington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-7106 | Gemar Morgan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis | Do the United States Sentencing Commission application note 4B1.4 cmt.n,(1) that states: "nor are the time periods for the counting of prior sentences… |
| 23-6892 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split rodriguez-v-united-states sentencing-regime serious-drug-offense state-law-interpretation state-sentencing-regime statutory-maximum | Does "maximum term of imprisonment . . . prescribed by law"—as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act to define "serious drug offenses" that are predic… |
| 23-6854 | Danny Lee Hampton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-6786 | Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6631 | Jeremy Dale Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committe… |
| 23-6579 | Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | L. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug s… |
| 23A686 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6433 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6419 | Anthony Harris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | • S>vcuiA a. cAe^eAAsAr vfe&Ue' a offeAse- \je4cl G\.V\»K£EMeAx ^BssSJkA oA %x\ \Ja2vOE "stsife latoS " V\\A\ovi Ocs^ez^teow " Mmzecr 1 -$& "^uteu Qi… |
| 23-6361 | Victor Grant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t… |
| 23-6340 | Christopher Stowell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial occasions-clause prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committe… |
| 23-6259 | Bryan Lee Ogle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction most-innocent-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tennessee-statute violent-felony | Whether the district court erred in applying an enhanced sentence, pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to Mr. Ogle at sente… |
| 23-6134 | Rajon Jamison v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-offender base-level base-level-calculation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-conviction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND ADDRESS TWO SENTENCING ERROR OF SIGNIFICANCE WHEN THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WH… |
| 23-6038 | Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt minimum-and-maximum-sentences prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed … |
| 23-6013 | Calvin Cogdill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment indictment jury reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-6011 | Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | To the exception to the rule termed in 28 U.S.C. §2255(e), the "escape hatch" or "saving clause" - does it permit a federal prisoner to "file a habeas… |
| 23-5998 | Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-code dangerous-weapon due-process innocence sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapons-statute | 1) Dio-me coiviTiTaT| 0NjA| An1cj SHoujcJ debATE that pOfSOAMT 6o3.^i A KidEIGHTH c\rco\T demV thepET\T\ofNicr /\ Err uh^THE peTiiioiOcr OKi A COA 7… |
| 23-370 | Paul Erlinger v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committed on occ… |
| 23-5665 | Shajuan Orlando Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 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. |
| 23-5606 | Samuel Valencia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on … |
| 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. | |
| 23-198 | Jamar M. Lewis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law | 1. Under this Court's decision in McNeill, is the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines defined at the time of the predicate convic… |
| 23-5457 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-28 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty | May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-5439 | Steven Huffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five members of this Court vacated a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Cri… |
| 23-5397 | Emanuel Beach v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23-5364 | Christopher Alexander Nerius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines timing-question united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether, in determining if a prior offense is a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), sen… |
| 23-5226 | Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states | I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause… |
| 23-5166 | Antwoyn Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of "serious drug offense," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules in… |
| 23-5154 | Justin Christopher Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense | 1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence? 2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting … |
| 23-5114 | Leroy C. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 23-5072 | Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-5081 | Ronnie R. Lovell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred "on occasions different," as required by the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 23-5036 | Brandon Mason v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-7903 | Denvy Hoffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7898 | Anthony Lamart Lawrence v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7894 | Frankie Shearry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc… |
| 22-7792 | Diante Turman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in | Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission require judges to impose criminal sentences that take account of a penalty range advised by the Sentencing… |
| 22-7772 | Stanley Jackson, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-factfinding jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find a defendant's prior convictions were "comm… |
| 22-7758 | Steven Keith Hunley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-violations criminal-procedure fifth-amendment indictment jury-factfinding lower-courts-error preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment | Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred "on occasions different," as required by the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 22-7755 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 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… |
| 22-1190 | Lavelle Hatley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony | Under the mandated categorical approach, a prior conviction falls within the Armed Career Criminal Act's ("ACCA") definition of "violent felony" only … |
| 22-7692 | Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five Justices of this Court agreed that offenses with a reckless mens rea do not qualify as a "vio… |
| 22-7675 | Quanathan Naiji Knox Ivery v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7660 | Damon L. Buford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding occasions-clause plain-error predicate-offenses sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause… |
| 22-7630 | Daniel Nathaniel McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense mandatory-minimum prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | 1. This Court has granted certiorari in Jackson v. United States, No. 22-6640, and Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389, and consolidated the cases. Th… |
| 22-7465 | Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden | South Dakota | 2023-05-04 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony | Is a Section 1983 action involved in SDC 22-1-2(WA)? Serious, why does the Eighth Amendment protect the right to life with what is SDC 22-1-2(B)? Does… |
| 22-7194 | Monquel Dejuan-Lee Paulk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split duenas-alvarez generic-crime realistic-probability sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-taylor | I. Is the reasoning of Taylor irrelevant to deciding whether an overbroad state crime qualifies as an ACCA predicate, as the Sixth Circuit held below?… |
| 22-947 | Tyler G. Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "co… |
| 22-7079 | Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G… |
| 22-6965 | Seth Grant Huntington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law-battery eighth-circuit-interpretation johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states state-assault-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether treating a state assault statute as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act when that statute requires no more than the intent … |
| 22-6925 | Gregory Allen Cook v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-factfinding sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 22-6867 | Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony | L. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Cr… |
| 22-6719 | Michael Anthony Conage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6683 | Terrell Javon Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6682 | Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to conclude that a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different fro… |
| 22-6640 | Eugene Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-6573 | Delamon A. Marshall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Does a prior conviction for domestic violence under Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2919.25(A) qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 22-6578 | Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 22-656 | Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 22-6468 | Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Question not identified. |
| 22-6389 | Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law | Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-6344 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule. Whether the… |
| 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 … |
| 22-542 | Tavaris Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act. |
| 22-6072 | Randy Belcher v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-5895 | Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits | Where a state structured-sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the structured-sentencing ra… |
| 22-5857 | Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Care… |
| 22-336 | Jason Reed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-10-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "co… |
| 22-5720 | Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco… |
| 22-5417 | Charles E. Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer | Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-5159 | Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-5139 | Carol Johnene Morris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 22-5116 | Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance | After this Court struck down the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual cause in 2015, the Fifth Circuit granted Mr. Vickers permission to file a "secon… |
| 22-5102 | Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an… |
| 22-5015 | Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony | 1. Whether Jackson received due process, i.e., fair warning that his burglary convictions would count as prior convictions under the Armed Career Crim… |
| 21-8230 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. In Texas, a thief is guilty of robbery if he "intentionally or knowingly threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death." T… |
| 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… |
| 21-8195 | Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony | The Armed Career Criminal Act provides an enhanced penalty for felons in possession of a firearm with three prior qualifying convictions, including fo… |
| 21-8062 | Bryant Love v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony | When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a states statutory definition df it's elements… |
| 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… |
| 21-7992 | Reginald Andre Molette v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7907 | Christopher Jo Stringer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition categorical-approach generic-offense state-law-interpretation taylor-standard taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-shepard | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7657 | Kirk L. Floyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony | The Georgia burglary statute disjunctively lists locations that may be burgled. The text makes plain that the list is not exclusive, Georgia's case la… |
| 21-7583 | Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony | 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Cr… |
| 21-7574 | Danyel Black v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probation-search sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 21-7495 | Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court | I. Does the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qua… |
| 21-7483 | Ruben Aguilera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure criminal-statute-interpretation divisibility fifth-circuit-interpretation generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute | 1. Can the Texas burglary statute — which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible and descriptive of generic burglary — properly be the basis for… |
| 21-7451 | Michael Shawn Bell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7333 | Andrew Michael Penny v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7057 | Victor Nava, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence enumerated-offense-clause reckless-aggravated-assault reckless-assault sentencing-guidelines texas-law | 1. Does the Supreme Court's holding in Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021) that a reckless aggravated assault cannot qualify as a "crime o… |
| 21-6991 | Lloyd George Kenney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act california-penal-code-207 categorical-analysis criminal-statute divisibility force-clause implicit-threat-of-arrest kidnapping violent-felony | 1. When a state's highest court has interpreted a state criminal statute to allow for a conviction even if no physical force is used in certain circum… |
| 21-6858 | Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | 1. In light of the Court& Government concessions(twice ) that the petitioner never servedover a year,should the ACCA,851 removed in wake of theand Ca… |
| 21-6750 | Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two… |
| 21-6657 | Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
| 21-6514 | Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement | WHETHER AN INFORMATION IS DEFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO STATE THE PROPER ELEMENTS FOR THE CRIME OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WHETHER THE ACCA BAN B… |
| 21-6289 | Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights by engaging in judicial fact-finding that two alleged assault con… |
| 21-6210 | Tony Bowen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum | 1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6204 | Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing | Question not identified. |
| 21-5998 | In Re Anthony Terry | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… | |
| 21-5980 | Jerome Curtis Stancil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause controlled-substances-act distribution serious-drug-offense social-sharing | The Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), (ACCA) mandates a 15year mandatory-minimum term of imprisonment for individuals convicted of violat… |
| 21-5984 | Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force | (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of t… |
| 21-5975 | Modesto Balderas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-14 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony | Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-5772 | Charles Eason v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation | I. When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ? II. If… |
| 21-5754 | Cedrin Farodd Carter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Is a different-occasions finding, like other ACCA determinations about prior convictions, confined to matters essential to the fact of a prior convict… |
| 21-297 | Travis Croft v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking, S.C. Code § 16-3-1075, is categorically a crime of … |
| 21-5501 | Michael David McCall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony | Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 21-5505 | Maurice Lamont Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach demand-for-certainty felon-in-possession felon-status intent-element state-law-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Under plenary appellate review, is a defendant's trial stipulation that he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm sufficient evidence that … |
| 21-5477 | Clifford Senter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law | Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 20-8342 | John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | The overall issue is whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability. The underlying issue is whether Mr. Johnso… |
| 20-8334 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion acca armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states legal-landscape section-2255 sentencing-review | Where a § 2255 movant relies on evidence of the legal background at the time of his sentencing to prove he was sentenced under an unconstitutional law… |
| 20-8082 | Eric Deshan Adams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony | U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 20-8053 | William Leroy Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony | Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence, pursuant to United States v. J… |
| 20-7984 | Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Whether simple robbery under Texas Penal Code § 29.02 remains a "violent felony" without the Armed Career Criminal Act's unconstitutional residual … |
| 20-7974 | Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances delivery offer-to-sell serious-drug-offense texas | I. Whether the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes an offer to sell, includes conduct that does not qu… |
| 20-7943 | Tyquez Ursery v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-gloss violent-felony | 1. Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burgl… |
| 20-7913 | Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense | 1. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT'S AMENDMENT REDEFINING "SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE" FOR PURPOSES OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE … |
| 20-7855 | James Ayers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 20-7798 | Christopher Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-20 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement | I. Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for purposes of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 20-7731 | Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery | 1. In Texas, a defendant commits simple robbery if, during the course of a theft, he recklessly causes someone else to suffer bodily injury or knowing… |
| 20-7701 | Samuel Alex Gann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass | An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-7678 | Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-08 | GVR | IFP | 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause | Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 20-7686 | Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record | 1. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Greer v. United States, No. 19-8709, which will determine if a circuit court of a… |
| 20-7617 | Willie Lee Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | One: Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for "felony drug offense" to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, al… |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7394 | Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho… |
| 20-7348 | Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony | New Mexico courts have held the state's aggravated assault statute does not have a mens rea element with respect to the victim. Does a criminal offens… |
| 20-7280 | Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether a federal court analyzing a prior state-court conviction to determine whether the offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed C… |
| 20-7284 | Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7286 | Kashus Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7242 | Xavier Lister v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-definition taylor-v-united-states | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 20-7183 | Shameke Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to review whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b), categorically fails to constitute "a crime of violence"… |
| 20-7188 | Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-7120 | Alfred Montgomery,III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation felon-in-possession generic-burglary plain-error rehaif sentencing-enhancement state-burglary-offense | 1. Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act when it can be committed withou… |
| 20-7091 | Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-challenge residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony | The overall issue is whether, under law set forth in Johnson, Mr. Chaney should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions o… |
| 20-7042 | Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion | Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6969 | Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony | Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA because post-Johnson (2015), he no longer has three prior qualifying "violent f… |
| 20-6976 | Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-6979 | Eddie Charles Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense intent-element shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | 1. When applying the categorical approach, federal courts are "bound by" a state supreme court's "interpretation of state law, including its determina… |
| 20-6980 | Michael Ray West v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion | Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6941 | Frank Joseph Dodge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-6773 | Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony | 1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio… |
| 20-6637 | David Earl Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary | Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely… |
| 20-6461 | Juan Morris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony | Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6448 | Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden | Third Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq… |
| 20-6450 | Lee Yerkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt | Does Georgia burglary qualify as "generic burglary" under the ACCA? |
| 20-6451 | Genesis Javon White v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CLASSIFYING MR. GRIFFIN AS AN ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL WHERE HIS PRIOR CONVICTIONS DID NOT QUALIFY AS "SERIOUS DRU… |
| 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… |
| 20-6306 | Phillip L. Gilliam v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony | Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6314 | Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6290 | Orlando Sanchez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-6220 | Tony Edwin McClurg v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary attempted-entry generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary | Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6221 | Miguel Nunez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-6225 | Michael David Lister v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 20-6216 | Michael E. Torres v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion | 1. The Fourth Amendment requires that police have probable cause before subjecting an individual to an arrest. Police surrounded Appellant, ordered hi… |
| 20-6137 | Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6084 | Laron J. Wainwright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Most circuits agree that when increasing a defendant's sentence beyond the normal statutory maximum pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), … |
| 20-6054 | Alex Cori Tribue v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirement prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement | Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different conviction that it did … |
| 20-6022 | Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement | This case presents a clear circuit split over whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when, after an Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) pr… |
| 20-5993 | Keith A. James v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force-clause impersonation intimidation physical-force subjective-intimidation violent-felony | The "force clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") defines "violent felony" as a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or t… |
| 20-400 | James Avery, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state burglary statute that disjunctively lists places that may be burgled under the statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhance… |
| 20-5809 | Albert Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition | 1. Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable? … |
| 20-5773 | William C. McGee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | I. Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness as held by the Eig… |
| 20-5798 | Jose Velasquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019) this Court determined that the definition of robbery contained in the Armed Career Criminal Act (A… |
| 20-5774 | Archie Manzanares v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | 1. The "categorical approach" determines whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The rele… |
| 20-5733 | Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | (1) Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is categorica… |
| 20-5643 | Louis Gene Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault burglary civil-rights due-process leocal physical-force predicate-conviction reckless-causation texas-assault-crimes texas-criminal-law | 1. A state crime is a "violent felony" (and therefore a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act) if it "has as an element the u… |
| 20-5646 | Sean Justin Owens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… |
| 20-302 | Steven Dotson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions | If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sen… |
| 20-5584 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 20-5588 | Joshua Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation | Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 20-5578 | Steven Gerard Walker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera… |
| 20-5537 | Anderson Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-31 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony | At issue is whether, under this Court's law established in United States v. Johnson, Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the ar… |
| 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 | |
| 20-5535 | Randy Platt v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission | In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2029), this Court reviewed whether Florida's robbery statute required a level of force necessary to qual… |
| 20-5404 | Jermaine Isaac Ross v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-elemental-facts prior-offenses rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-5245 | Victor John Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act attempt attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of violen… |
| 20-5184 | Richard Brian Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)… |
| 20-5157 | Denard Stokeling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th… |
| 20-5144 | Rykeith Andre Levatte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Whether, categorically, aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) elements clause, 18 U… |
| 20-5075 | Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony | Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea — as opposed to willfully or intentionally — can qualify as a "violent … |
| 20-5060 | Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act… |
| 20-5001 | Mark Norris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony | Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under the… |
| 19-8924 | William R. Jenkins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8929 | Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 … |
| 19-8838 | Magdaleno Medina, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255h aggravated-assault-as-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states constitutional-rule johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-barrier section-2244b4 successive-motion violent-felony williams-v-united-states | 1. In Texas, a defendant is guilty of aggravated assault if he recklessly causes another person to suffer serious bodily injury (or if he recklessly c… |
| 19-8820 | Cesar Velazquez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8810 | Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. DOES NORTH CAROLINA'S OFFENSE OF FELONIOUS BREAKING AND/OR ENTERING QUALIFY AS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT? |
| 19-8755 | Levi West v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-1390 | Martin Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8741 | Kelly David Ankeny, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon force-requirement oregon-robbery physical-force second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether Oregon Robbery in the Second Degree (Or. Rev. Stat. § 164.405(1)(a)) is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the statute'… |
| 19-8745 | Bernard Scott, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8735 | Michael A. Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8646 | Leonard Griffin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-8597 | Lewis McKenzie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 19-8564 | David Ojeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokelin~ v. United States, U.S. 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019), in holding that a… |
| 19-8544 | Hubert Carter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-8414 | Ashford James Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Since 1990, this Court has required the lower courts to use the "categorical approach" in courts' evaluation of a criminal defendant's prior convictio… |
| 19-1264 | Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-04 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony | Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree… | |
| 19-8030 | Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
| 19-1133 | Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin… |
| 19-7731 | Michael Herrold v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element … |
| 19-7684 | Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony | 1. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery, Penal Code § 29.02(a), "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force … |
| 19-7562 | Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. b18-6662 (January 2019) 2. United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016). 3. Did this Court's intervening decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2… |
| 19-7553 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7504 | Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7387 | Travis Miles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony | 1. Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under … |
| 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… |
| 19-7320 | Jurden Rogers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not… |
| 19-7314 | Johnny L. Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | IFP | acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses… |
| 19-7324 | Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-7326 | Jimmy Lee Allred v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1513 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury categorical-approach modified-categorical-approach taylor-v-united-states violent-felony violent-force witness-retaliation | 1. Clarification is needed to unite the Circuits in determining when to use the "Categorical Approach" defined in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 57… |
| 19-7288 | John Kelsey Gammell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-definition statutory-elements | In determining whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the ACCA, does the categ… |
| 19-7178 | Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review | Whether oJL not the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under th… |
| 19-7123 | Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7076 | Cedrick Ponder v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… |
| 19-7071 | Joseph A. Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7074 | Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law | I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-7062 | Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7045 | Michael Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | In Shular v. United States, 18-6662, this Court granted certiorari to resolve whether "the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed C… |
| 19-7007 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that… |
| 19-7003 | Quintin Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony | I. Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim… |
| 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… |
| 19-6965 | Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6968 | Brian David Brumbach v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." "Burglary" carries the meaning that the majori… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6941 | Michael Collins v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony | 1. Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career C… |
| 19-6904 | Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6884 | Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6858 | David Lamont Liddell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-6800 | Rodney Dewayne Mitchell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act jury-determination maximum-punishment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement standing texas-criminal-law violent-felony | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery is a "violent felony " under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? Subsidiary question:… |
| 19-6739 | Marshon Simon v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,elements- attempted-offense canine-search criminal-procedure Does an attempted offense meet the requirements of florida-v-harris fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections fourth-amendment,narcotics-detection,canine-search narcotics-detection residual-odor | 1. Does Florida v. Harris stand for the proposition that narcotics sniffing canines may be trained to alert to residual odor, i.e. the absence of narc… |
| 19-6752 | Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness curtis-johnson curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause physical-force samuel-johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement stokeling stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes a 15–year mandatory minimum sentence on any § 922(g) offender convicted of at least three qualifying pred… |
| 19-6675 | Michael Ray Bishop v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 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… |
| 19-6671 | Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | (1) Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the deter… |
| 19-6672 | Erwin Keith Bell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | (1) Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the deter… |
| 19-6673 | Lashon Browning v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6678 | Joseph Van Sach v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6680 | Tony Lipscomb v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6662 | Shane E. Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation | Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S… |
| 19-6664 | Steven Klikno v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6643 | John Forrest v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court | A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col… |
| 19-6633 | Adrian Ausberry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony | Before this Court decided Voisine v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2272 (2016), all circuits agreed that an offense that can be committed with a mens rea … |
| 19-6618 | Delvin Deon Tinker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-provision criminal-motion elements-clause federal-statutory-provision mens-rea resisting-arrest retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-decision section-2255 | Under what circumstances is a criminal defendant pursuing a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decisi… |
| 19-6586 | Shane Inghels v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under the Armed… |
| 19-6504 | Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6405 | Ernest Vereen, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act divisible-statute due-process felon-in-possession innocent-transitory-possession record-ambiguity sentencing sentencing-court transitory-possession violent-felony | (1) Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under th… |
| 19-6363 | David Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6370 | Troy Bennett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony | I. Whether this Court should resolve the circuit split concerning whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence under Florida Statutes § 84… |
| 19-6336 | Eddie Jennings v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6313 | Mario Ronrico Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA-enhanced-sentence armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing multi-count-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing-package-doctrine unconstitutional-sentence | Whether the sentencing package doctrine, rather than the concurrent sentence doctrine, must be applied on post-conviction review of a meritorious chal… |
| 19-6308 | Ronald Detro Winder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence curtis-johnson elements-clause injury injury-definition physical-force sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state offense that includes as an element causing injury, but which also defines "injury" broadly to include more than the "physical pain or… |
| 19-6279 | Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force. |
| 19-6287 | Seferino Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6296 | Michael Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test | (1) Herewith, then, the issue presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committ… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6209 | John Hudson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony | The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica… |
| 19-6186 | Latroy Leon Burris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation | (1) Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the "use of physical force against" that person for purposes of the Ar… |
| 19-6124 | Jerry Scott Hill v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony | I. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT NORTH CAROLINA ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO KILL INFLICTING SERIOU… |
| 19-6114 | Antwoyn Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony | I. Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C.… |
| 19-6116 | Ronald E. Evans v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation generic-burglary north-carolina north-carolina-burglary north-carolina-statute second-degree-burglary sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation trailers | Whether North Carolina second degree burglary (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51), which encompasses unlawful entries into trailers used to store property, is c… |
| 19-6078 | Terreall McDaniel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6054 | John Hemby v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-precedent | 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6056 | Michael Renee Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | §-2255 28-U.S.C-2244(b)(4) 28-U.S.C-2255(h) 28-usc-2244b4 28-usc-2255h armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner gatekeeping-standard johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-hurdle sentencing successive-motion | (1) Once a federal prisoner secures appellate-court authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h), must the prisoner satisfy a s… |
| 19-6037 | John Anzures v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach commercial-burglary generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause sentencing-enhancement stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states | When a Johnson petitioner would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, is it right to endorse the Tenth Circuit's "relevant legal backgro… |
| 19-373 | James Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-5923 | Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used… |
| 19-5924 | James Hennessee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-5908 | Howard Leon Combs v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime | 1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt… |
| 19-5772 | Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony | California state courts have authoritatively construed the state statute punishing assault with a deadly weapon, California Penal Code $ 2a5(a)(1) and… |
| 19-5652 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines? |
| 19-5629 | Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony | I. Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a‐133 categorically qualifies as a "violent felony" under the force clause of the Armed Care… |
| 19-5572 | Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to… |
| 19-5491 | Shed T. Woods v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under th… |
| 19-151 | United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry | Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime has "the ba… |
| 19-5410 | Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force | 1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 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 … |
| 19-5331 | Michael Lee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony | Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its "prior panel precedent rule" – effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right t… |
| 19-5262 | Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states | Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5274 | Anthony James Hill v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker | Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5236 | Seab Nolen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession | Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 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… |
| 19-5196 | Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t… |
| 19-5134 | Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force … |
| 19-5078 | Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 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 … |
| 19-5037 | Gilberto Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute descamps-v-united-states district-court-fact-finding felon-in-possession johnson-descamps-precedent johnson-v-united-states mens-rea | Should the District Court be allowed to find the facts necessary in order to qualify defendant as an Armed Career Criminal or should precedent such as… |
| 19-5024 | William Thrower v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-based-inquiry elements-clause new-york-penal-law realistic-probability-test robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Subdivision 1 of New York's Penal Law § 70.02 lists by class (from Class B to Class E) all Penal Law offenses defined as "violent felony" offenses; su… |
| 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 … |
| 18-9760 | Andrew D. Dixon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau… |
| 18A1315 | United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act burglary intent-element sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9653 | Todd Ricks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9547 | Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qu… |
| 18A1259 | Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering generic-burglary johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-statute taylor-v-united-states | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9460 | Quentin Perry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth… |
| 18-9415 | Michael Don Neely v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled … |
| 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… |
| 18A1207 | Michael Lee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause felony-robbery johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9343 | Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States , this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definitio… |
| 18-9327 | Aceshunn Brown v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempt force-clause new-york-law new-york-penal-law second-degree-robbery violent-felony | 1. Whether an attempt to commit a violent felony, in this case second-degree New York robbery, is a violent felony under the force clause of the Armed… |
| 18-9248 | Preston Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-offense indirect-force omission physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether an offense committed by indirect force, or by "any means" like an omission, qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Careener Criminal … |
| 18-9275 | James Troiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-residual-clause advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states townsend-misinformation townsend-v-burke vagueness void-for-vagueness | Should a COA issue because reasonable jurists could conclude that Johnson's interpretation of the ACCA's residual clause triggers a Townsend claim aga… |
| 18-9277 | Melvin Scott Morman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 18-9217 | Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations | (1) Whether the "right" in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a… |
| 18-8911 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 18-8931 | Tajie Coleman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an… |
| 18-8941 | Sheldon Lamont Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history elements-clause florida-statute johnson-v-united-states leocal-v-ashcroft mens-rea possession-with-intent-to-sell sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed… |
| 18-8874 | Anthony Jerome White, aka Dean Braithwaite, aka Carlos Valentine, aka Anthony Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach deadly-weapon elements-clause second-degree-aggravated-assault second-degree-assault third-circuit-court-of-appeals violent-felony | Whether White's Pennsylvania Conviction For Second Degree Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapan Is Categorically Qualify As A Violent Felony Under T… |
| 18-8718 | Anthony C. Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness | Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8703 | Alan Wade Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8662 | Howard Lawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-8528 | Willie Robertson, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act force-clause state-robbery state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony | Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" categorically a "violent felony"… |
| 18-8447 | Javis Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-8406 | Demone Rule v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempt-offense attempted-offense categorical-approach elements-clause illinois-law physical-force sentencing-enhancement substantial-step violent-felony | Illinois attempt offense contain only two elements: the intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The subs… |
| 18-8435 | Roy Allen Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court held unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act ("A… |
| 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… |
| 18-8306 | Billy Gene Howard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony | (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8309 | Darwin Zoch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | (1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8267 | Vincent Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8294 | Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony | I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 18-1131 | United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Dismissed | accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten… | |
| 18-8148 | Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne… |
| 18-8110 | In Re LaShawn Anderson | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement | This petition presents two important issues concerning the proper interpretation of the Saving Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); and the appropriate applic… | |
| 18-8065 | James Steven Maxwell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-and-battery categorical-analysis categorical-approach elements-clause force-standard mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states oklahoma-law taylor-precedent | does Taylor's holding, that Oklahoma's offense of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon meets the force standard in the elements clause (force c… |
| 18-7966 | Desmond Smith v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights drug-offense generic-federal-offense generic-offense sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-law-definition state-statute | Whether the ACCA's definition-of a "serious drug offense" imposes a sentence enhancement or make an exception when a state's definition of "delivery a… |
| 18-7984 | James Scott Ervin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determ… |
| 18-7910 | Richard Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when: 1) it was authorized by virtue of the fact … |
| 18-7804 | Denandias Watson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7838 | William Floyd Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a general inte… |
| 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… |
| 18-7801 | Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
| 18-7765 | Burgess Massey v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states new-york-robbery residual-clause retroactivity second-or-successive-habeas sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1. Whether the New York State offense of robbery in the third degree is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act … |
| 18-7723 | Randy Dempsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7621 | Jacoby Burns v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 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… |
| 18-7639 | Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7570 | Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7572 | Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7577 | Roland Castro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony | Whether it is inconsistent with Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), for a court to require a prisoner who files a second or successive mot… |
| 18-7586 | Zachary T. Frey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally vag… |
| 18-7538 | Jeffrey Russo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause | A motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is considered timely if filed within one year of the date on which "the right asserted was initially recognized by the… |
| 18-7500 | Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime | Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 18-7426 | Terry Lamell Ezell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 aedpa armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states procedural-burden retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | Where (1) the sentencing record is silent or does not clearly establish if the district court relied on the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual claus… |
| 18-7443 | Wallace Thornton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the … |
| 18-7448 | Charles Foxx v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act beckles-v-united-states career-offender collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. 2… |
| 18-7420 | Joe Ray Alires v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7432 | Cornell W. Barber v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated… |
| 18-7379 | Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Johnson), this Court declared unconstitutional the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 18-7323 | Robert Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony | GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA? GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7252 | Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7232 | Arthur Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force force-clause johnson-definition mens-rea physical-force state-appellate-courts state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony | I. Is a state robbery offense, that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force, a violent felony under the… |
| 18-7233 | Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition | Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 18-7238 | Antron Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7192 | Lavell Phillips v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), a "violent felony" is defined as, inter alia, a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, o… |
| 18-793 | Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-7096 | Reinaldo Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony | 1. Is the "touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013) and Mathis v.… |
| 18-7113 | Dewey Hylor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery in violation of Fla. Stat. § 812.13, is not a "violent felony" under the elements clause Arm… |
| 18-7116 | Lonnie Anthony Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act curtis-johnson-v-united-states denard-stokeling-v-united-states edwin-deshazior-v-united-states florida-statute florida-statutes johnson-definition physical-force second-degree-murder violent-felony | At issue in this matter is whether second-degree murder in Florida is a "violent felony" within the meaning of the elements clause of the Armed Career… |
| 18-7127 | Christopher French v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute | Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate? May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-7086 | Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states | The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7032 | Reginald L. Lomax v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 18-6972 | Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6979 | Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of "culpable negligence" qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-6989 | Jessie Lee Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6915 | Carlton Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g… |
| 18-6936 | Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6912 | Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-6859 | James Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Do the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), apply both to offenses analyzed und… |
| 18-6757 | Ronald Ray Norman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act? II. Is the… |
| 18-6767 | Brent Galbreath v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process error johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error violent-felony violent-felony-definition | When a Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sent… |
| 18-6760 | David Junior Upshaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines post-sentencing-law pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. May a defendant, faced with a silent record below, prove that his ACCA enhanced sentence was in deed based upon the residual clause through a proce… |
| 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)? |
| 18-6662 | Eddie Lee Shular v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony | Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 18-6612 | James Pinkney v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-08 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a "violent felony" under the… |
| 18-6599 | Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) , this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally v… |
| 18-6547 | Christopher Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 18-6548 | Salvatore Leone v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states | Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |
| 18-6495 | Richard Anthony Trent v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation | Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is "suggestive" and … |
| 18-6474 | Tyrone Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "se… |
| 18-6424 | Walter Lee Deiter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(e) aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-sentencing force mens-rea violent-felony | 1) whether aiding and abetting an unarmed bank robbery, which can be committed with a negligent or reckless mens rea, qualifies as a "violent felony''… |
| 18-6375 | Michael Whisby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-provision collateral-review mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness stokeling-v-united-states vagueness-doctrine violent-felony | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-a-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. 2… |
| 18-6370 | Charles Harper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6385 | Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6366 | John A. Barbosa v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | The Court's decision in United States v. Rodriquez, which it clarified in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, instructs lower courts to look to the record of… |
| 18-6369 | Lashon Browning v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-17 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-6328 | Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6303 | Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6277 | Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… |
| 18-6281 | Terry E. Callins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness | Did Mr. Callins file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which … |
| 18-431 | United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3) | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6177 | Tony Lipscomb v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-02 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? 2. The S… |
| 18-6146 | Charles Neuman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 | Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause, … |
| 18-6096 | Michael Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 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… |
| 18-6067 | Edward Lee Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release | 1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc… |
| 18-370 | Marlon Haight v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) who has three previous convictions for … |
| 18-6013 | Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | IFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2… |
| 18-6025 | Rene Borrero v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony | Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is catego… |
| 18-5940 | Moises Perez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act common-law-resistance force-clause resistance state-appellate-courts state-robbery state-robbery-offense violent-felony | Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the common law requirement of overcoming "resistance" is categorically a "violent felony" … |
| 18-5914 | Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony | Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johnson motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5915 | Michael Hill v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony | The Armed Career Criminal Act treats as a violent felony felonies that require the use of force. In Illinois, as in many states and as for many federa… |
| 18-5876 | Steven Sanford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5838 | Hosea Swopes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony | 1. Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by th… |
| 18-5732 | James LaConte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process-clause florida-robbery florida-robbery-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony | Whether Florida's State § 812.13 robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is categor… |
| 18-229 | Ralph Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion | Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a succes… | |
| 18-5692 | Melvin Jordan, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony | (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2… |
| 18-5707 | Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his § 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1… |
| 18-5674 | Roger Clay Swain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness | Did Mr. Swain file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which "h… |
| 18-5680 | Reginald McGee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | I. The district court reverisbly erred when it determined that the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault was a violent felony qual ifyin… |
| 18-5685 | Clifton Patterson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague following the Supreme Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2… |
| 18-5612 | Detrick C. Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability elements-clause firearm-possession florida-felony-battery florida-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appeal abilit… |
| 18-5594 | Cory Devon Washington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh… |
| 18-5520 | James Morris Sellers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents | Question not identified. |
| 18-5525 | Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states | Whether application of the rule pronounced in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 598, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), barring the sentenci… |
| 18-5475 | Johnaton Sampson George v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-eligibility johnson-v-united-states procedural-eligibility procedural-requirements residual-clause substantive-eligibility substantive-requirements | To establish both procedural and substantive eligibility for habeas relief under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), a petitioner must s… |
| 18-5497 | Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense | 1. Is Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution a "serious drug offense" under the ACCA when state law defines "distribution" to include "transport with i… |
| 18-5435 | Martin Michael Ybarra v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-felony | I. Is federal bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which can be accomplished by "intimidation," a violent felony under the elements clause u… |
| 18-5439 | Adam Longoria v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Under the ACCA, can a sentencing court rely solely on non-elemental facts to infer that a defendant's temporally overlapping and related offenses were… |
| 18-5392 | Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing | The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United … |
| 18-5393 | Shane McMahan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-5398 | Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5380 | Luis Lopez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction | Does a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maxim um term of imprisonm en… |
| 18-5383 | James Rodney Shuman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness | WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… |
| 18-5313 | Joseph Steele v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ… |
| 18-5329 | Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-5288 | Robert Serrano v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force johnson-definition physical-force state-robbery state-robbery-offense victim-resistance violent-felony | I. Is a state robbery offense that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force a violent felony under the e… |
| 18-5263 | Bobby Ree McGee, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | IFP | 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability elements-clause johnson-claim residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 statutory-maximum violent-felony | Mr. McGee was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 180 months' impriso… |
| 18-5230 | John Parker Murphy v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states | The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-5232 | Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony | Is a state robbery offense categorically a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) (an offense that "has as … |
| 18-5245 | Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … |
| 18-5217 | Audy Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care… |
| 18-5100 | Ras Rahim v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme | Is Heflin, 358U.S. 415, 3 L. Ed. 2d. 407, 79 S. Ct. 451 (1959), still the controlling precedent? Herein, this court held that the text of 28 U.S.C. 22… |
| 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… |
| 18-5092 | Tyrone Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act florida-robbery physical-force prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement stokeling-v-united-states victim-resistance violent-felony | I. Whether Mr. Anderson's sentence must be vacated because Florida robbery is not a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act. I… |
| 18-5033 | Johnny L. Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… |
| 18-5056 | Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap… |
| 18-5008 | Autrey Canadate v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-robbery certificate-of-appealability curtis-johnson-v-united-states due-process elements-clause florida-criminal-law use-of-force violent-felony violent-force | Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the Florida offense of attempted armed robbery, Fla. Stat. § 812.13, categorically requires the use of… |
| 18-5022 | Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states | In Stokeling v. United States, No. 17-5554, this Court has granted certiorari to resolve whether a state robbery offense that requires a purposeful us… |