duenas-alvarez
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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?… |
| 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… |
| 20-5585 | 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… |
| 20-5588 | Joshua Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation | Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 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… |