criminal-law-procedure

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23-1288 Nicholas Newman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with anothe…
19-7569 Stanley Noel Ames v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent intent sentencing-standard specific-intent Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that federal bank robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this C…
19-5956 Adrian Apodaca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing I. Whether the Defendent, Mr. Apodaca and sentence can not be upheld' under the definition of "crime of violence" for count five of the indictment o…
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…
19-5025 Isaac Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez 1. Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) convicti…
18-9725 Jose Munoz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a…
18-9684 David Prien-Pinto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § …
18-8738 Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth…
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…
18-8493 Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE…
18-8469 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b…
18-927 Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness 1. Whether the government's expert's afterthe-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretatio…
18-6915 Carlton Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g…
18-6911 Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo…
18-6738 Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is…
18-6151 Claude Thelemaque v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor…
18-5041 Louis Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a…
18-5061 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu…