burglary-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5769 | Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 21-7520 | Isaiah Wilson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Should the court exercise it's Power to resolve a split amongst the sister Circuits regarding New Jersey Third degree burglary designation as a cri… |
| 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… |
| 21-5505 | 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 … |
| 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 … |
| 20-7242 | 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… |
| 20-6979 | 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… |
| 20-400 | 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? … |
| 20-5001 | 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… |
| 19-7664 | Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "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 … |
| 19-7288 | 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… |
| 19-7271 | Eric Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute burglary-statutes categorical-approach conviction conviction-requirements criminal-plea entry entry-element firearm-possession generic-crime generic-crimes instrument plea-withdrawal rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of… |
| 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… |
| 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… |