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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6149 Michael Boyer v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove …
24-6143 Gustavo Navaro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me…
24-5533 Clint Monroe Utter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction base-offense-level carjacking firearm-enhancement robbery sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Utter's objection to the United States Probation Officer's 5 level enhancement to his base offense leve…
24-5499 Donald Alfred Busch v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking legislative-intent mechanical-power motor-vehicle off-road-vehicle statutory-interpretation The Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforcement Act of 1984 provided a definition for "motor vehicle" to mean "a vehicle driven or drawn by mechanical powers …
24-5330 Xavier Daughtry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for federal carjacking, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2119, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under § 924(c)(8)(A) post-Borden.
23-6652 Don Meeker v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t…
23-5907 Brian Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-law federal-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation force-and-violence intent intent-requirement serious-harm-or-kill taking-a-vehicle vehicle-theft Does a conviction for carjacking by "force and violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 2119 require that the force and violence be employed, with the requisite in…
23A27 Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete carjacking confrontation-clause crime-of-violence fair-trial firearm-discharge sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23A28 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete carjacking confrontation-clause eighth-circuit fair-trial firearm-possession sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-5672 Luan Van Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and whether the ineffective assistance of counsel 4th-amendment carjacking civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy exclusionary-rule ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Erred in denied Nguyen Clearly his Constitutional claims are Correct when the Fifth Circuit had …
21-7055 Eugene Willis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation I. In compliance with Holloway V. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1991), is an attorney ineffective for failing to argue before the jury the Government f…
21-6640 Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony 1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m…
21-6459 Daniel Lowell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1(a) carjacking criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-burden federal-criminal-law felony-murder-rule legal-standard temporary-safety When applying the felony murder rule under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) to the crime of carjacking, what must a defendant show to establish that he has reached a …
21-780 Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause Ewin Oscar Martinez was convicted in 2000 of using and carrying a firearm during a "crime of violence" in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), based upon …
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 …
21-5319 John Louis Devencenzi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation By its plain language, federal carjacking can be committed by "intimidation." 18 U.S.C. § 2119. This Court recognizes carjacking by intimidation is sa…
21-5105 Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999) that during a carjacking, a person's intent to seriously harm or ki…
20-8216 Justin Michael Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment 1. In Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999), this Court held that an "empty threat" of violence is not sufficient to demonstrate that a person …
20-6415 Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se…
20-5926 Rolando Candia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be violated by means of "intimidation" through threats of mental or non-corporeal …
19-8387 Robert C. Caldwell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute The Government seehs to have defendants sentenced under both the CarJacking statute and the firearm statute. The issue befire the Court is whether sen…
19-6979 Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene…
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability where the Section 924(c) conviction was charged as to two d…
18-9258 Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge "Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the "vagueness challenge" of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is consid…
18-8313 John Allen Newton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence offense fails to require any intentional use, attempted use, or threatened use of violen…
18-7470 Carl Lee Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is federal carjacking by way of intimidation a crime of violence as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause? 2. In light of this Court'…
18-7387 James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(…