dangerous-weapon
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5619 | Michael Garrick Denson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts. 2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … |
| 23-6969 | James Paul Antonio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23-6707 | Sean Robert Wathen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement | 1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne… |
| 23-5998 | Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-code dangerous-weapon due-process innocence sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapons-statute | 1) Dio-me coiviTiTaT| 0NjA| An1cj SHoujcJ debATE that pOfSOAMT 6o3.^i A KidEIGHTH c\rco\T demV thepET\T\ofNicr /\ Err uh^THE peTiiioiOcr OKi A COA 7… |
| 22-514 | Edwar Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors | 1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Rodriguez' objection to th… |
| 21-6642 | Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the application note defining "dangerous weapon" overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) by defining "possession" of a "dangerou… |
| 20-7021 | Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons | Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 19-8741 | Kelly David Ankeny, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon force-requirement oregon-robbery physical-force second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether Oregon Robbery in the Second Degree (Or. Rev. Stat. § 164.405(1)(a)) is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the statute'… |
| 19-8611 | Adam Scott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation | At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-7248 | Christopher Omar Hinton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon federal-sentencing north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether North Carolina attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing … |
| 18-9812 | Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon | In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts … |
| 18-9604 | Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) … |
| 18-7663 | Randy Jason Ford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force | When an Iowa "assault" is accompanied only by the "display" of a dangerous weapon, does the "displaying" provide the "threatened use of force" such th… |