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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-6969 | James Paul Antonio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 22-7232 | Darrell Gunn v. Frederick N. Berntein, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment assault assault-case civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review medical-treatment retaliation | whether plaintiff was within the 3 year time limit of 42 U.S.C.A. Section 1997e(a) whether the plaintiff's factual allegations of Anthony Annucci, et… |
| 21-7014 | Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea | Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction stating that for a finding of guilt, Mr. Lopez had to know that the person … |
| 21-6826 | Todd Stands Alone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation | Is common-law simple assault an essential element of § 111(b)? |
| 21-5080 | Emogene R. Brown v. Llyas Shalkh | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | IFP | assault battery bodily-integrity civil-rights due-process medical-treatment | Question not identified. |
| 20-8064 | Derrick Grant v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits assaulting any person "designated in section 1114 of this title." Section § 1114 designate… |
| 20-8047 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-8018 | Deshaun Tisdale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm | In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime… |
| 20-7672 | James Michael Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury | WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY… |
| 20-7021 | Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons | Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-6973 | Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | I. Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the… |
| 20-6379 | Brenda L. White v. St. Lawrence Catholic Schools | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | IFP | abuse administrative-liability assault civil-rights due-process educational-abuse parental-reporting retaliation school-misconduct student-rights | Should teachers be allowed to hurt students? Should principals be allowed to lie on students? Should a parent have rights to report wrongdoing witne… |
| 20-551 | Jack Witt Voris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… | |
| 20-448 | Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas | Texas | 2020-10-08 | Denied | appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel | I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were … | |
| 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… |
| 19-8611 | Adam Scott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation | At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-8406 | Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 19-8195 | Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | IFP | assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… |
| 19-7337 | Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7016 | Matthew Terrell v. C. Armant, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment assault certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process jackson-v-virginia oral-copulation substantial-evidence | Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process… |
| 19-6218 | Timothy Milton Boone v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment assault burden-of-proof burglary constitutional-requirements criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime first-degree-assault first-degree-burglary maryland-code maryland-criminal-code reasonable-doubt | 1 DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR BY FAILING TO PROVE THE FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT ELEMENT S WITH INTENT TWO COMIT CRIME OF VIOLENCE P 2 DID THE LOWER COURT ER… |
| 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… |
| 19-5495 | David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing | Petitioner has had three (3) plus two 42. U.S.C. §1983 Civil Actions dismissed under the 3 strikes provision of 28 U.S.C.§1915(g), latest 42 U.S.C.§19… |
| 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 … |
| 18-9812 | Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon | In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts … |
| 18-8987 | Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington | Washington | 2019-04-26 | Denied | IFP | assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim | Is the def dtu't ) Mich -ael 'cLRiuFst 1 eitW.ed tO rs OF the 5QCGnd de5ree. S5zwI -€ Gor'Jvt'ciôv t-J- instruc±i'Ons to dsmiss Did th S -tte sho'j D… |
| 18-8450 | Randall Alan Carder v. California | California | 2019-03-18 | Denied | IFP | assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense | Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d… |
| 18-8145 | Desmond Farmer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender | The District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division denied the petitioner a reduction in his sentence under 3582 and Amend… |
| 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… |
| 18-7500 | 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 … |
| 18-7233 | 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… |
| 18-6466 | Wilson C. Ortega v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-enhancement criminal-street-gang criminal-threats false-imprisonment gang-evidence gang-related ineffective-assistance-of-counsel predicate-offenses prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment trial-procedure | In California, evidence of other gang members' commission of qualifying predicate offenses is relevant to prove criminal street gang enhancements, but… |
| 18-5489 | Min Ho Kwon v. Hyoun Phil Won, et al. | Virginia | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | assault civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process employment injury insurance-claim liability personal-injury standing worker's-compensation workers-compensation | In fact, "Hyoun" assaulted "Kwon", "Kwon" injured, "Kwon" could not work, "Chan" made cause of assaulting, "Chan" was business owner, "Chan" had worke… |
| 18-5386 | Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error | Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause … |