crimes-of-violence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5918 Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f…
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…
22-6968 Thomas Marmolejos v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio…
22-6554 Adrian Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c conspiracy-theory crimes-of-violence criminal-liability gun-enhancement pinkerton-liability racketeering vicar-statute Are Instructions under Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) appropriate for crimes of violence in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C. § 195…
21-7233 William Sardinas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states procedural-default united-states-v-taylor 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court…
21-6555 Malik Saunders v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp…
21-6234 Edward Stain v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation 1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle…
21-6121 Luis Enrique Lario-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied IFP commentary crimes-of-violence criminal-enhancement guideline-commentary prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Sentencing Commission can use commentary to expand an unambiguous Guideline that applies to enhancements for prior convictions for crimes …
20-7137 Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 I. Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or succ…
20-6622 Devon Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-robbery bank-robbery crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation violent-crime 1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in implicitly holding that Bank Robbe…
20-6073 Desmond Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability where the Section 924(c) conviction was charged as to two d…
19-5647 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal …
18-9639 Dustin E. Ash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2.
18-8281 Michael Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit…
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'…
18-7204 Julio Rolon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP Alleyne alleyne-v-united-states Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states Apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey crimes-of-violence Dimaya due-process hobbs-act Johnson-II johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states section-924c sessions-v-dimaya 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…
18-6948 William Gavidia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights common-heritage crimes-of-violence criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process enterprise indictment pattern-of-activity pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity Whether those of common heritage constitute an enterprise that should be indicted and tried together and any crimes of violence they commit constitute…
18-6581 Larry Hailey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner…
18-5808 Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment because it concludes that the crutial question…
18-5617 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3142 18-usc-3156 bail bail-denial constitutional-violations crimes-of-violence detention detention-order due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention speedy-trial IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE LEGISLATURE TO DEFINE ALL CHAPTER 110 CRIMES OF 18 UNITED STATES CODE (18 U.S.C.), IN PARTICULAR § 2252, AND 2252A, AS …
18-5074 Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce Under the Due Process Clause, did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request/motion for an entrapment instruction when the record co…