assault-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A585 | G'Ante Butler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on "resist[ing], opposing], impeding], intimidat[ing], or interfer[ing]" with federal officers while they are "e… | |
| 23A866 | Nicholas Newman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | assault-statute collateral-attack-waiver federal-officer mens-rea plea-agreement recklessness | 1. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether assault against a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed with a mens rea of reckless… | |
| 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… |
| 20-7790 | Rolando Villarreal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | GVR | IFP | assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony | I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 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… | |
| 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… |