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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6747 | Brad McLennan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25-6622 | Alante Martel Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-6582 | Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition | I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 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 … |
| 25-6424 | Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition | I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 25-5972 | Ramiro Gomez-Reyes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-statute federal-definition realistic-probability sentencing statutory-interpretation | To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a federal "crime of violence" definition for… |
| 25-5947 | Darrell Wickware v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25-5841 | Melvin Ray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment substantial-effects-test | 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of aiding and abetting bank robbery as a "crime of violence" under 924(c)(3)(A) sidesteps the categorica… |
| 25A383 | Devon Chance v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach circuit-conflict crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instruction section-924(c) | Question not identified. | |
| 25A371 | Rashun Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 | Question not identified. | |
| 25A351 | James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 25A299 | Curtis Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5620 | Terry Duane Qualls v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing | Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25-5334 | Billy Joe Russell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 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… |
| 24-1183 | Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law | Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the … |
| 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… |
| 24-6326 | Mark Allen Hayden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the de… |
| 24-6271 | Javier Francisco Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-procedure felony-offense probation-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | I. Whenever a probationer or supervised releasee faces revocation, the Guidelines Manual assigns a grade to the violation "conduct." The violation gra… |
| 24-6129 | In Re Jason Clark | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Can Petitioner be denied Categorical approach relief on his 18 USCS 924, enhanced sentence under United States v. Taylor? 2) Can the US Attorney p… | |
| 24-6121 | Jason Campion v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof categorical-approach federal-definition overbreadth-doctrine state-prosecution statutory-interpretation | When arguing that a state statute is overbroad under the categorical approach, and a particular state statute plainly prohibits actions that are broad… |
| 24-5950 | Terry Eugene Iversen v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence public-indecency recidivist | Whether Mr. Iversen's sentence to life without parole for recidivist public indecency by exposing his genitals constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen… |
| 24A423 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the "categorical approach," the Massachusetts child pornography statute is "overbroad" such that a prior conviction under that statute … | |
| 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… |
| 24-5768 | James H. Roane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach criminal-statute force-clause racketeering-enterprise VICAR-statute violent-force | When a § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, must a reviewing court apply the categorical approach to the state or federal statute und… |
| 24-5719 | Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation | The U.S. Supreme Court's holdings in Taylor, Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis have consistently required the application of the categorical-approach, or the… |
| 24-5683 | Ronald Champney v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c third-circuit-court | In light of the holding in United States v. Taylor that attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)… |
| 24-5484 | Irvin Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation | The First Circuit affirmed application of a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), based on Petitioner Irvin Abreu's prior state-court conv… |
| 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… |
| 24-5329 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 24-5322 | Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-14 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense | Section 924(c) of Title 18 of the United States Code criminalizes carrying a firearm in furtherance of a "crime of violence." Per this Court's precede… |
| 24-5141 | Marcus Jay Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap… |
| 23-7818 | Mark Jordan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisibility general-intent mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach, a federal offense that incorporates by reference the commission of an underlying offense is divisibl… |
| 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… |
| 23-1168 | Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence mens-rea predicate-offense racketeering-enterprise vicar VICAR-statute | The question presented is whether, when a defendant's § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, a court must apply the categorical approac… | |
| 23-7173 | John Lee Barlow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7021 | Darron Henderson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach divisibility federal-courts mathis-standard modified-categorical-approach state-law statutory-construction third-circuit-test | Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility —which makes subsection organization dispositive, and which permits examination of facts if a statut… |
| 23-6949 | Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach. 2. Whether conspiracy and attempt are m… |
| 23-6899 | James Earl Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense federal-statute sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions ussg-4b1.1 | 1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that Mr. Robinson's prior state conviction… |
| 23-6871 | Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause hobbs-act texas-robbery united-states-v-taylor | Does placing another in fear qualify as a threatened use of force under the ACCA's elements clause? |
| 23-6702 | Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses | 1. Does § 1961(1)(A) of RICO incorporate—and thereby require the Government to plead and prove beyond a reasonable doubt—the elements of specific stat… |
| 23-6656 | Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-6135 | Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6129 | Jarmaine Carter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of "extortion" under United States Sentencin… |
| 23-6082 | Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery | Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps by ignoring Borden and expanding "robbery" (as enumerated as a "crime of viole… |
| 23A428 | Charles States v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Presumed Complete | attempted-murder categorical-approach crime-of-violence sentencing-guidelines substantive-offense united-states-v-taylor | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5939 | Brett Northington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation | Should the definition of "aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?" be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea… |
| 23-5852 | Kareem Davis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation | Is murder in aid of racketeering ("VICAR murder'), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis bas… |
| 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. |
| 23-198 | 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… |
| 23-5377 | Anthony Seides Gaines v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 23A120 | Edward Eugene Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Presumed Complete | 924(c) attempted-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act-robbery rule-of-lenity | Question not identified. | |
| 23A106 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5207 | Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness has, "as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the… |
| 23-5159 | Juan Jabari Hollis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substance-offenses criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines waiver-of-appeal | Despite waiving his right to appeal his sentence except under limited circumstances, did the calculation of his advisory guideline range, which influe… |
| 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… |
| 23-5099 | Dustin Jolly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. … |
| 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 … |
| 22-7635 | Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 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… |
| 22-7588 | Eric Lee Coleman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7461 | Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | I Whether the new statutory definition of the term "serious drug felony" set forth in Section 401(a)(1) of the First Step Act of 2018, and codified i… |
| 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?… |
| 22-946 | Martin Jay Manley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of other circuits, in holding that for purposes of applying the categorical approach t… |
| 22-7129 | Thomas P. Thayer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation | This Court has held that, where Congress makes the application of federal law turn on a prior "conviction" that, "by its nature," "involves" certain "… |
| 22-7052 | Colby Todd Dubose v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability generic-burglary non-permanent-structures oregon-first-degree-burglary overnight-accommodation reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation stitt-decision stitt-v-united-states | Could reasonable jurists debate whether, after Stitt, Oregon first-degree burglary remains categorically broader than generic burglary because the sta… |
| 22-6956 | Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT THE ORDERS APPEALED WERE NEITHER FINAL NOR WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION UNDER THE ALL-WRITS ACT 18 USC … |
| 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… |
| 22-6836 | Robert Speed v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether RICO is a § 924(c)(3)(A) "crime of violence," is the statutory definition of "racketeering activity" divisible, such that a court… |
| 22-6717 | Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6569 | Charles Heard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation | 1. Does a VICAR murder conviction, which is in turn based upon a second-degree murder under California law, constitute a categorical crime of violence… |
| 22-6540 | Brandon Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6497 | Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1) Does the struckdown 18 USc. g924 (e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to "ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSGj4B1.2(a) … |
| 22-6432 | Edward Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states | Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 … |
| 22-6407 | Steven L. Haden v. California | California | 2022-12-28 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states elements-test mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine | Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive,… |
| 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… |
| 22-6130 | Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-6132 | Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-5982 | Richard Allen Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), which includes felony murder, a crime of violence within the meaning of the force clause of 18 U.… |
| 22-5970 | David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a … |
| 22-5892 | Shamar Cortez Womack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach federal-counterpart generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez nongeneric-conviction overbroad-statute prior-conviction state-prosecution statutory-elements | When a state statute is facially broader than its federal counterpart, must a defendant still offer examples of overbroad state prosecutions to confir… |
| 22-5877 | Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5857 | 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… |
| 22-5866 | Gregory A. Milton, aka G v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 924(c) categorical-approach certiorari-petition constitutional-claim hobbs-act section-924c supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor | This Court's should Grant this certiorari petition, Vacate the judgment below, and Remand (GVR), in order to allow the court of appeals to decide in l… |
| 22-5610 | Andre Thompson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | i) 14I approach od \% US. Cf fcj U) CA) Courts allowed or retired b look to the J wlort it ordinarily invo Jicab crime ad i/ioknce fpplymj jit Catz^ … |
| 22-5566 | Randly Irvin Begay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force | As this Court held in Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), an offense must necessarily entail the targeted use of force against another to… |
| 22-5569 | Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5535 | Eric Kamahele v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions united-states-v-taylor | Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" … |
| 22-5538 | Kepa Maumau v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation | Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" … |
| 22-5489 | Under Seal v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven… |
| 22-5461 | James Keith Russey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h… |
| 22-5440 | Joseph Griego v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor | Petitioners Griego and Romero ask this Court to address whether Hobbs Act robbery is a qualifying crime of violence under § 924(c). The statutory elem… |
| 22-5042 | Phillip Shiel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), following this Court's d… |
| 22-5020 | Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement | A year after he was discharged from the Army with a disability pension following brain, spinal, and psychological injuries from a scud missel attack w… |
| 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… |
| 21-8191 | Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten… |
| 21-8127 | Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 21-8089 | Darrell E. Gillespie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §924(c)-offense 924c categorical-approach civil-rights conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process force-elements-clause pinkerton-liability | The question presented is whether, after Davis, the invocation of Pinkerton theory of liability by the government, without more, obviates the governme… |
| 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… |
| 21-7992 | 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… |
| 21-7451 | 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… |
| 21-7236 | Joseph Crocco v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti… |
| 21-7158 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6590 | Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness | (1) Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States,… |
| 21-829 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 21-6278 | Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach clean-vehicle crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | The question presented is whether an attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which may be completed even if it is abandoned before anyone knows… |
| 21-6231 | Christopher Lee Scott v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this case should be remanded for the Fourth Circuit to decide the issue presented below, which is whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-… |
| 21-496 | Martez L. Smith v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a… |
| 21-482 | Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response Waived | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis | Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o… |
| 21-5813 | Anthony Foster v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach general-verdict habeas-proceeding harmless-error-review predicate-offenses Stromberg-error | (1) Should the categorical approach be used in a habeas proceeding to evaluate which of several predicate offenses support a jury's general verdict? … |
| 21-5789 | KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation | It is a federal offense for a person who is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to knowing… |
| 21-447 | Matthew Nix v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-22 | GVR | Relisted (2) | actual-bias categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act implied-bias juror-bias juror-dishonesty mcdonongh-power-equipment mcdonough-standard new-trial new-trial-standard | 1. Whether a new trial is warranted pursuant to this Court's decision in McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood, 464 U.S. 548 (1984), only upon … |
| 21-5657 | Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation | This petition presents a straightforward case for certiorari review. The question presented is whether, under the categorical approach of the elements… |
| 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 … |
| 21-5505 | 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 … |
| 21-102 | Marcus Walker v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-26 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-58 | Sassine Razzouk v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA? |
| 20-8286 | Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1. Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent, where… |
| 20-8074 | Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation | This case concerns a methodological problem in applying the categorical approach. The categorical approach compares the elements of a state crime with… |
| 20-8020 | Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) | I Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)? II Whe… |
| 20-7610 | Jose Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) because… |
| 20-7439 | Michael Luis Suarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement | Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o… |
| 20-7417 | Allen Pace, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7402 | Sylas Glenn Brownridge v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7412 | Anthony W. Gardner v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7383 | Jorge Zamora-Suarez, aka Pedro Moncada v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7393 | Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 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… |
| 20-7327 | Timothy A. Ward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law | Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7305 | Larry Daniel Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation | 1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in… |
| 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… |
| 20-7242 | 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… |
| 20-7188 | 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 … |
| 20-7163 | Gabriel Z. Kershaw v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach charging-document controlled-substance-offense generic-judgment-records shepard-documents u.s.s.g.-§4b1.1 | Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a … |
| 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… |
| 20-6979 | 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… |
| 20-6941 | 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 … |
| 20-6582 | Curtis Ward v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery force-clause mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation | Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation . . . or . . . by extortion."… |
| 20-6447 | Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation | Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by inti midation . . . or . . . by extortion.… |
| 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? |
| 20-6415 | 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… |
| 20-6132 | Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Does Gant's reasonable-to-believe exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable cause, reasonable suspicion or a… |
| 20-6133 | Theodore David Newcomb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-6122 | Jerome Capelton v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing | 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-522 | Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c… | |
| 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… |
| 20-5772 | Michael Portanova v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "categorical approach," which this Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as 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… |
| 20-5658 | Martin Racioppi v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit's approach, in United States v. McCants, 952 F.3d 416 (3d Cir. 2020), to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery… |
| 20-5595 | Joshua Glen Box v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5585 | Denis Nikolla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test | In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 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 | |
| 20-5435 | Garnett Lloyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach chevron-deference cyberstalking federal-offense sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-interpretation specified-offense-against-minor | I. Whether the definition of "sex offense" in 34 U.S.C. § 20911(5)(A) includes federal offenses other than those listed in 34 U.S.C. § 20911(5)(A) (ii… |
| 20-5348 | Chazdin Miller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5326 | Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was: A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 20-5202 | Jerome Collins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the New York offense of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a crime of violence, and whether varying conclusions from different circuits… |
| 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 … |
| 20-5076 | Jorge Aaron Ceja-Valdez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 20-5054 | Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the "related to" test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense,… |
| 19-8884 | Samuel Gray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-8756 | Kevin Ingram v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-offense categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute federal-sentencing james-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | If a completed offense is categorically a "crime of violence" within 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause, is the attempted commission of that o… |
| 19-8688 | Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016… |
| 19-8583 | Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18… |
| 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… |
| 19-8221 | Feuu Fagatele v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8043 | Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a "crime of violence" that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 19-7972 | Javier Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code | Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… |
| 19-7965 | Cedric Edney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b | Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7879 | Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Is first degree murder, as broadly and idiosyncratically defined under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code: (a) included in the category of "murder" as… |
| 19-7824 | Dexter Fisher v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7766 | Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. | California | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness | Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 19-7646 | Davion Fitzgerald v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation | May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub… |
| 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… |
| 19-7665 | Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 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… |
| 19-7549 | Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law | (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-7520 | Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 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)? |
| 19-7458 | Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth… |
| 19-7334 | Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER FORCE REQUIRED TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY SATISFIES THE PHYSICAL FORCE STANDARD OF JOHNSON I TO CATEGORICALLY QUALIFY THE ELEMENTS CLAUSE … |
| 19-7307 | Julian Moz-Aguilar v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach conduct-based-inquiry crime-of-violence elements-clause force-requirement johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach physical-force sentencing-court | In applying the categorical or modified categorical approach to § 924(c)(3)(A), must a sentencing court limit its consideration to the elements of an … |
| 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… |
| 19-7313 | Dalton Crutchfield v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction 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… |
| 19-7271 | 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… |
| 19-7288 | 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… |
| 19-7260 | Darin Kaufmann v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7115 | Alexander Faulkner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-7067 | Michael Baird Jordan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that bank robbery by intimidation is less culpable than a specific in… |
| 19-7079 | Bryan Mark Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause intent intentional-force statutory-interpretation | Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 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… |
| 19-6979 | 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… |
| 19-6965 | 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 … |
| 19-6939 | Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | WHETHER A STATE DRUG STATUTE, THAT IS EITHER COMPLETELY INDIVISIBLE OR AT MOST ONLY DIVISIBLE INTO NO MORE THAN THREE GENERALLY SEPARATE OFFENSES, ALL… |
| 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… |
| 19-6862 | Dalton Betsinger v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-6864 | Cedis R. Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine | Does a state court conviction qualify as an "offense of violence" for the purpose of the sentencing predicate pursuant to U.S.S.G.§4A1.1(e), if the st… |
| 19-6832 | James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6736 | Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. | California | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness | Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… |
| 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? |
| 19-6687 | Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-6688 | Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6706 | Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 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… |
| 19-6677 | Justin Scott Vasey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6601 | Kevin Battle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime | Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 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… |
| 19-6389 | Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6397 | Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6354 | Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 19-6309 | Charles Benton Bagwell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intentional-force intentional-use-of-force statutory-interpretation | Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 19-6278 | Kenneth Lyle Spangle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 arbitrary-and-capricious bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence due-process federal-bank-robbery fifth-amendment meaningful-review | Whether the Circuit's decision to deny a certificate of appealability without any analysis or explanation for its decision at all was so arbitrary and… |
| 19-469 | John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California | California | 2019-10-10 | Denied | arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness | Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo… | |
| 19-6238 | Brannon D. Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) 18-USC-924c categorical-approach contemporary-interpretation crime-of-violence elements-clause predicate-crime statutory-interpretation | Whether, in applying the categorical approach to the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), courts must analyze the least of the acts historical… |
| 19-6142 | Santo Leone v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion amendment categorical-approach civil-procedure district-court-discretion divisibility drug-convictions due-process first-step-act marijuana-convictions motion-to-amend prior-convictions section-851 standing timeliness | Whether district court abused its discretion by concluding motion to amend should be denied as untimely? Whether district court erred when failure to… |
| 19-438 | Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5) | ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 19-6128 | Bacari McCarthren v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-battery categorical-approach crime-of-violence deadly-weapon descamps descamps-v-united-states mathis physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation turner | The Florida crime of aggravated battery may qualify as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines only if the … |
| 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… |
| 19-6120 | Raul Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 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… |
| 19-6050 | Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-5976 | Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 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… |
| 19-5835 | Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 19-5789 | Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | 1. Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Senten… |
| 19-5732 | Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation | To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of t… |
| 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… |
| 19-5460 | Jose Ortega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap… |
| 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… |
| 19-5456 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | GVR | IFP | anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals | 1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-5278 | Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 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.… |
| 19-5194 | Edward Hector v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5096 | Nicholas Rivera v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5100 | Matthew Karahalios v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation | 1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-5087 | Willie Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law | 1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 19-5089 | Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents | I Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "crime of violence" element of physical force, and one of which does… |
| 19-5061 | Akeem Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951: conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery, qualify as a "crime of viol… |
| 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… |
| 18-9793 | Timothy Dale Gould v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is divisible for purposes of categorical analysis? |
| 18-9696 | Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9673 | George Djura Jakubec v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-9618 | Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings | Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 18-9522 | Renee Lopez-Galvan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-9432 | Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9467 | Koran McKinley Allen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9469 | Paul Melvin Watson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9354 | Donald Reddick v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Is federal bank robbery as defined in 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) categorically a crime of violence, where the statute does not require an intentional use, att… |
| 18-9320 | Domenick James Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE VIS-A… |
| 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 … |
| 18-9266 | Daniel Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-14 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Petitioners were convicted of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of crimes of violence. The dis… |
| 18-9210 | Curtis Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-09 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. If Davis holds § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague, is that ruling retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review? 2. If Davis rein… |
| 18-9211 | Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-09 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. In Sessions v. Dimaya, 1388 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), this Court held the "crime of violence" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 16(b) void for vagueness for the … |
| 18-9183 | Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute | Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a… |
| 18-1378 | Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections | Louisiana | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna | In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA) to make the federal and state systems more uniform and effective. SORN… |
| 18-9092 | Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 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… |
| 18-8799 | Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime | Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8737 | Mario Bachiller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-09 | GVR | IFP | categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a conviction and sentence im… |
| 18-8654 | Karyea Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception | Did The Court Of Appeals err by dismissing the appeal of the District Court's reasoning that Mathis was inapplicable to Karyea Williams on Collateral … |
| 18-8445 | Tommy McAdoo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force | The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,… |
| 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… |
| 18-8391 | Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8393 | Irma Ovalles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine | Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-8394 | Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8320 | Darius Andre Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states | This Court should grant the writ because the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring … |
| 18-8327 | Robert Nathan Alm v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8302 | Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8311 | Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 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… |
| 18-8245 | Gary Casdell Fite v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent general-intent-crime section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-8256 | Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8265 | Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti… |
| 18-8266 | Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 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… | |
| 18-8110 | 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… |
| 18-8068 | Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-7915 | Arthur Sean Warner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-locational-elements categorical-approach categorical-match categorical-matching criminal-statute-interpretation descamps descamps-v-united-states federal-statute mathis mathis-descamps-standard mathis-v-united-states school-property state-criminal-statute state-statute | Did the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals findings result in a decision that was(1) Unreasonable in light of the evidence present… |
| 18-7833 | Jerome Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability | I. Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offe… |
| 18-7783 | Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | 1. Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clau… |
| 18-7784 | Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 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… |
| 18-7750 | Ronald Morrobel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That The Petitioner Was An Armed Career Criminal When State Law Clearly Defined Florida Aggravated … |
| 18-7726 | Carlton Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7680 | Hector Cirino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C… |
| 18-7573 | Matthew Hearn v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation | 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C… |
| 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'… |
| 18-7388 | David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-7263 | Gerald Patmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation | The question presented by this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7096 | 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.… |
| 18-7105 | Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense… |
| 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… |
| 18-7036 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-6913 | Lamar Sowell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6858 | Micah G. Pritchett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law | Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 18-6870 | James Frederick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force | In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the ACCA's elements clause to mean "viole… |
| 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… |
| 18-6665 | Maurice T. Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 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… |
| 18-6675 | In Re Ryan Lee Zater | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness | Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth… | |
| 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… |
| 18-6574 | Curtis D. Hall v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence firearm-use sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | 1. Whether (as the court of appeals held) the categorical approach does not apply in any case in which the defendant was also convicted of "use[ of] a… |
| 18-6569 | Mark Lee Murray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether ge… |
| 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… |
| 18-6369 | 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? |
| 18-6292 | Anthony Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 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 … |
| 18-6232 | Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? In light of Johnso… |
| 18-6256 | William Wise Mock v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach to determine if a defendant is a career offender, the sentencing court can use a Presentence Investig… |
| 18-6172 | Sherman Edward Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP | access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions | I. Prisoners must file a petition with the Court of Appeals for permission to pursue a second or successive habeas or 2255 petition. Most such petitio… |
| 18-6009 | Emile Myrthil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force | 1. Is "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018)… |
| 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… |
| 18-5866 | Nathan Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. In accord with the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, should a conviction under the Hobbs … |
| 18-5840 | George Stoney v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5655 | Cory D. Foster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5576 | DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine | (1) Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 Unconstitutional on its face, as applied to Petitioner, and when read in conjunction with other laws becaus… |
| 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… |
| 18-5504 | William Lem Posey, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5445 | Jason Lee Pyles v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony | L Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erroneously held that Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member … |
| 18-5321 | Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-5274 | Manuel Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision | A prior drug conviction, if it is a federal "controlled substance offense," can increase a federal criminal sentence or result in an alien's deportati… |
| 18-5269 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5176 | In Re Winex Eugene | 2018-07-09 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure | 1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion … | |
| 18-5095 | Tron Lakey Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime | Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… |
| 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… |
| 18-5033 | 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… |